Anthony Trollope Quotes

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.

A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

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.

An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

It's dogged as does it.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

Easy reading requires hard writing.

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.

Short accounts make long friends.

Never mingle love and business.

I sometimes think you despise poetry, ' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.

The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.

A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.