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
People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right is doing; it should be taken without… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand.… — 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
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
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with… — 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
