No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMake all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
-
-
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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 -
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE