The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAbove all else, never think you’re not good enough.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELove is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is such a difference between life and theory.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPower 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 TROLLOPEDon’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuch 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 TROLLOPEIt’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat is there that money will not do?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE