If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Why 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.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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When 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.
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What 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.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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.
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It 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.
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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.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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