One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOne wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThat I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWords spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENeither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIn 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 TROLLOPEThe chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE