“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
“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
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
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses. — 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
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
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. — 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
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
“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
“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
