Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuccess is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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 TROLLOPEI am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEDon’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThey are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuch young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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 TROLLOPEWhy is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE