The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The heroes of life are so much better than the heroes of romance,” said Caroline.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“You shall be my pet, and my poppet, and my dearest little duck all the days of your life.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“A liar has many points to his favour,—but he has this against him, that unless he devote more time to the management… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
He was not a villainsimply a self-indulgent spoiled young man who had realized to himself no idea of duty in life. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — 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 true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how… — 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
But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The old family carriage and the two lady's maids were there,--as necessaries of life; but London society was not within her reach.… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes from hardness of heart… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“That I think depends on the rank in life which the young men occupy;—and also the young women. I can understand that… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“If he was dull as a statesman he was more dull in private life, and it may be imagined that such a… — 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
