No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
-
-
Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
There is such a difference between life and theory.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE