Found Quote by Anthony Trollope

“There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.”

Anthony Trollope

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Found Lying May Order Sin Wells

More by Anthony Trollope

“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

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

Image

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Anthony Trollope

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

Image

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

Anthony Trollope

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

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

Image

“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.”

Anthony Trollope

Image

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Anthony Trollope

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

Image

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Anthony Trollope

Image

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

Image

Explore all 448 Anthony Trollope quotes

More Found quotes

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I…

Jackie Evancho

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

Frederick Douglass

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

Kenny Wormald

It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for…

Marsden Hartley

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Edmund Burke

Image

This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell…

Jonathan Safran Foer

Image

Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how…

Anton Zeilinger

Image

Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are,…

Eugene H. Peterson