If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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 TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWe cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMy sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERomance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhy is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESpeeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI 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