What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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