Anthony Trollope Quotes

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

What is there that money will not do?

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.

Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.

You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.