Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
-
-
No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Such 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 TROLLOPE -
The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE