A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA husband is very much like a house or a horse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut 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 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 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 TROLLOPEThe mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE