I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Whom 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?
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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