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 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.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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