I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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?
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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