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
“Law!” said Bunce, with all the scorn he knew how to command— “law! Did ye ever know a poor man yet was… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed… — 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
