People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEEvery man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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It 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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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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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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But 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.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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