Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEHe should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
-
-
A 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 TROLLOPE -
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 -
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
There is such a difference between life and theory.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE