I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBeware of creating tedium!
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuch 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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 TROLLOPEA 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEDon’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELate hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE