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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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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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