“Yes; — exactly. But what is to be the end of it? Is he to be allowed to ruin you and Hetta?… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Though he was inquiring into himself as closely as he could, he never even told himself that he had been dishonest. Fraud… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places, has become at the same time… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
