I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAbove all else, never think you’re not good enough.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWords spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThey who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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 TROLLOPEConsidering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOne can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE