To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Nothing perhaps is so efficacious in preventing men from marrying as the tone in which married women speak of the struggles made… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“He liked to be kindly treated, to be praised and petted, to be well fed and caressed; and they who so treated… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends?” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Book love, my friend, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and… — 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
