Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules...… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and… — 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
It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be… — 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
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
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not… — 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
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
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should… — 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
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to… — 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
