Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThose who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEConsidering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAnd though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETill we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE