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
Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot,… — 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
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may… — 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
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy;… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for… — 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
