Nothing 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 TROLLOPEIt’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
-
-
After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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 -
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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 -
Let 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 TROLLOPE -
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
What is there that money will not do?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE