Anthony Trollope Quotes
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With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Short accounts make long friends.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
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A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.
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The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.