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 TROLLOPELove is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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