If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAny one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIs it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOne can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE