Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
-
-
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE