When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
-
-
In 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 TROLLOPE -
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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 -
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
What is there that money will not do?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
The 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 TROLLOPE -
I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE