There is such a difference between life and theory.
ANTHONY TROLLOPECaveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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. . .
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Why 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.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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?
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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