The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPerhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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. . .
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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