Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty;… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it.… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel… — 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
