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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses. -- Anthony Trollope
The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world. -- Anthony Trollope
There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards. -- Anthony Trollope
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen. -- Anthony Trollope
A man captivated by wiles was only captivated for a time, whereas a man won by simplicity would be won forever - if he, himself, were worth the winning. -- Anthony Trollope
It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,
not though it be of the Garter,
confers so fair an honour. -- Anthony Trollope
Leave a chimney-sweep alone when you see him, Chiltern. Should he run against you, then remember that it is one of the necessary penalties of clean linen that it is apt to be soiled. -- Anthony Trollope
Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable. -- Anthony Trollope
We get on now with a lighter step, and quicker: ridicule is found to be more convincing than argument, imaginary agonies touch more than true sorrows, and monthly novels convince, when learned quartos fail to do so. -- Anthony Trollope
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome. -- Anthony Trollope
A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give. -- Anthony Trollope
As he cared no longer for the light that lies in a lady's eye, there was not much left to him in the world but cards and racing. -- Anthony Trollope
People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better. -- Anthony Trollope
Lord Augustus shook his head and put his hands in his trousers pockets, - which was as much as to say that his feelings as a British parent were almost too strong for him. -- Anthony Trollope
It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking -- Anthony Trollope
Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future. -- Anthony Trollope
No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend,* the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. -- Anthony Trollope
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant. -- Anthony Trollope
The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men. -- Anthony Trollope
We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us. -- Anthony Trollope
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason. -- Anthony Trollope
But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title. -- Anthony Trollope
Perhaps also Roger felt that were he to take up the cudgels for an argument he might be worsted in the combat, as in such combats success is won by practised skill rather than by truth. -- Anthony Trollope
Let's have another bottle of 'cham,'" said Captain Clutterbuck, when their dinner was nearly over. "'Cham' is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg. -- Anthony Trollope
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician. -- Anthony Trollope
When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. -- Anthony Trollope
And I think that when once he had learned the art of arranging his words as he stood upon his legs, and had so mastered his voice as to have obtained the ear of the House, the work of his life was not difficult. -- Anthony Trollope
The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man. -- Anthony Trollope
Mrs Grantly after her father's death. This matter, therefore, had been taken out of the warden's hands -- Anthony Trollope
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others. -- Anthony Trollope
Few men do understand the nature of a woman's heart till years have robbed such understanding of its value. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XLII MR. MAINWARING'S LITTLE DINNER -- Anthony Trollope
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. -- Anthony Trollope
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. -- 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 has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause. -- Anthony Trollope
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. -- Anthony Trollope
Home to your own people. How nice! I have no people to go to. I have one sister, who lives with her husband at Riga. She is my only relation, and I never see her. -- Anthony Trollope
He, as he told his tale, did not look her in the face, but sat with his eyes fixed upon her muff. -- Anthony Trollope
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit. -- Anthony Trollope
Every man to himself is the centre of the whole world; - the axle on which it all turns. All knowledge is but his own perception of the things around him. All love, and care for others, and solicitude for the world's welfare, are but his own feelings as to the world's wants and the world's merits. -- Anthony Trollope
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell. -- Anthony Trollope
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything. -- Anthony Trollope
If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love. -- Anthony Trollope
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. -- Anthony Trollope
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods. -- Anthony Trollope
But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever. -- Anthony Trollope
We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children. -- Anthony Trollope
A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. -- Anthony Trollope
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear -- Anthony Trollope
The man who worships mere wealth is a snob. -- Anthony Trollope
the public is defrauded when it is purposely misled. Poor public! how often is it misled! against what a world of fraud has it to contend! -- Anthony Trollope
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. -- Anthony Trollope
The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good. -- Anthony Trollope
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. -- Anthony Trollope
Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !. -- Anthony Trollope
With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it. -- Anthony Trollope
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless. -- Anthony Trollope
Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall. -- Anthony Trollope
In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue. -- Anthony Trollope
In these fits of sad regret from which the latter years of few reflecting men can be free, religion would suffice to comfort him. Yes, religion could console him for the loss of any worldly good. -- Anthony Trollope
Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort. -- Anthony Trollope
There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty. -- Anthony Trollope
The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence. -- Anthony Trollope
When last days are coming, they should be allowed to come and to glide away without special notice or mention. And as for last moments, there should be none such. Let them ever be ended, even before their presence has been acknowledged. -- Anthony Trollope
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. -- Anthony Trollope
There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man. -- Anthony Trollope
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. -- Anthony Trollope
Having a comfortable allowance from his father, he could devote the whole proceeds of his curacy to violet gloves and unexceptionable neck ties. -- Anthony Trollope
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion -- Anthony Trollope
Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this - no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am nearly sure that no French fingers could do it in England. -- Anthony Trollope
In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us. -- Anthony Trollope
When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices. -- Anthony Trollope
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. -- Anthony Trollope
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. -- Anthony Trollope
Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again, and completed the lecture in a manner not at all comfortable to himself. -- Anthony Trollope
He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth. -- Anthony Trollope
No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LVIII THE TWO OLD LADIES -- Anthony Trollope
A man desires to win a virgin heart, and is happy to know, - or at least to believe, -that he has won it. With a woman every former rival is an added victim to the wheels of the triumphant chariot in which she is sitting. -- Anthony Trollope
Lovers with all the glories and all the graces are supposed to be plentiful as blackberries by girls of nineteen, but have been proved to be rare hothouse fruits by girls of twenty-nine. -- Anthony Trollope
There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been. -- Anthony Trollope
Such was the beauty of the landscape, that a lover of scenery would be tempted thus to lose himself. -- Anthony Trollope
But she knew this, - that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing. -- Anthony Trollope
the principal duty which a parent owed to a child was to make him happy. Not -- Anthony Trollope
I don't like anybody or anything, said Lucinda.
Yes, you do;
you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear. -- Anthony Trollope
Familiarity does breed contempt; - doesn't it? -- Anthony Trollope
Gentle reader, did you ever feel yourself snubbed? Did you ever, when thinking much of your own importance, find yourself suddenly reduced to a nonentity? Such was Eleanor's feeling now. -- Anthony Trollope
No other American city is so intensely American as New York. -- Anthony Trollope
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret. -- Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century. -- Anthony Trollope
Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him. -- Anthony Trollope
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands. -- Anthony Trollope
People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in Parliament used to be something when I was young, but it won't make a make a gentleman now-a-days. It seems to me that none but brewers, and tallow-chandlers, and lawyers go into Parliament now. -- Anthony Trollope
(John Bold said): If an action is the right one, personal feelings must not be allowed to interfere. Of course I greatly like Mr Harding, but that is no reason for failing in my duty to those old men. -- Anthony Trollope
Courtesty and cordiality are not only not the same, but they are incompatible. Why so? Courtesy is an effort, and cordiality is free. -- Anthony Trollope
Little bits of things make me do it; - perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; - the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver. -- Anthony Trollope
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine. -- Anthony Trollope
It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything... -- Anthony Trollope
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men. -- Anthony Trollope
There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things. -- Anthony Trollope
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do. -- Anthony Trollope
These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory. -- Anthony Trollope
Now, Justinia, you are unfair. -- Anthony Trollope
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. -- Anthony Trollope
Though she hardly knew how to explain the matter even to herself, she was sure that there was at present a general heaving-up of society on this matter, and a change in progress which would soon make it a matter of indifference whether anybody was Jew or Christian. For -- Anthony Trollope
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge. -- Anthony Trollope
He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it. -- Anthony Trollope
Of course he had committed forgery;
of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life. -- Anthony Trollope
But the country is changing." "It's going to the dogs, I think; - about as fast as it can go." "We build churches much faster than we used to do." "Do we say our prayers in them when we have built them?" asked the Squire. -- Anthony Trollope
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. -- Anthony Trollope
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum. -- Anthony Trollope
And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning. -- Anthony Trollope
It is no good any longer to have any opinion upon anything. -- Anthony Trollope
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession. -- Anthony Trollope
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning. -- Anthony Trollope
Oh, that that old man in Westmoreland would die and be gathered to his fathers, now that he was full of years and ripe for the sickle! But there was no sign of death about the old man. -- Anthony Trollope
It was a beautiful summer afternoon, at that delicious period of the year when summer has just burst forth from the growth of spring; when the summer is yet but three days old, and all the various shades of green which nature can put forth are still in their unsoiled purity of freshness. -- Anthony Trollope
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places. -- Anthony Trollope
The bishop did not whistle. We believe that they lose the power of doing so on being consecrated; and that in these days one might as easily meet a corrupt judge as a whistling bishop; but he looked as though he would have done so, but for his apron. -- Anthony Trollope
Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER L 'IN THESE DAYS ONE CAN'T MAKE A MAN MARRY -- Anthony Trollope
In life I've rung all changes through,
Run every pleasure down,
'Midst each excess of folly too,
And lived with half the town. -- Anthony Trollope
The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails. -- Anthony Trollope
All is fair in love and war; and if this is not love, it was the usual thing that stands as a counterpart for it. -- Anthony Trollope
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. -- Anthony Trollope
Each had treated the girl as an encumbrance he was to undertake, - at a very great price. But -- Anthony Trollope
Of all needs a book has,
the chief need is to be readable. -- Anthony Trollope
It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary. -- Anthony Trollope
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XXXIV MARY'S LETTER -- Anthony Trollope
Lord Augustus thought that his brother should have a personal interview with his young brother peer, and bring his strawberry leaves to bear. The -- Anthony Trollope
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves. -- Anthony Trollope
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age. -- Anthony Trollope
Let me tell you, Lady Glencora, that a faineant government is not the worst government that England can have. It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something. -- Anthony Trollope
Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules ... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens. -- Anthony Trollope
If one wants to keep one's self straight, one has to work hard at it, one way or the other. I suppose it all comes from the fall of Adam. -- Anthony Trollope
Wine is a dangerous thing, and should not be made the exponent of truth, let the truth be good as it may; but it has the merit of forcing a man to show his true colors. -- Anthony Trollope
Did you ever know a poor man made better by law or a lawyer!' said Bunce bitterly. -- Anthony Trollope
Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity. -- Anthony Trollope
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. -- Anthony Trollope
Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country worthy of note?? To puff and to get one's self puffed have become different branches of a new profession. -- Anthony Trollope
Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away. -- Anthony Trollope
Miss Trefoil must have thought that kissing and proposing were the same thing. Other young ladies have, perhaps, before now made such a mistake. But this young lady had had much experience, and should have known better. -- Anthony Trollope
A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect. -- Anthony Trollope
When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer. -- Anthony Trollope
Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain. -- Anthony Trollope
There was very much in the whole affair of which he would not be proud as he led his bride to the altar;
but a man does not expect to get four thousand pounds a year for nothing. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XXIX THE SENATOR'S LETTER -- Anthony Trollope
Babbling may be a weakness, but to my thinking mystery is a vice. -- Anthony Trollope
If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart. Even if I were young and good-looking, I doubt whether I could please myself. As it is I am likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife. -- Anthony Trollope
What had passed between Eleanor Harding and Mary Bold need not be told. It is indeed a matter of thankfulness that neither the historian nor the novelist hears all that is said by their heroes or heroines, or how would three volumes or twenty suffice! -- Anthony Trollope
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself. -- Anthony Trollope
Wars about trifles are always bitter, especially among neighbours. When the differences are great, and the parties comparative strangers, men quarrel with courtesy. What combatants are ever so eager as two brothers? -- Anthony Trollope
It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith. -- Anthony Trollope
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious. -- Anthony Trollope
I don't believe the 'Evening Pulpit' can prove it, - and I'm sure that they can't attempt to prove it without an expense of three or four thousand pounds. That's a game in which nobody wins but the lawyers. I wonder -- Anthony Trollope
E ate so much that he became too fat to see to eat his vittels. -- Anthony Trollope
He liked to be kindly treated, to be praised and petted, to be well fed and caressed; and they who so treated him were his chosen friends. He had in this the instincts of a horse, not approaching the higher sympathies of a dog. -- Anthony Trollope
You shall be my pet, and my poppet, and my dearest little duck all the days of your life. -- Anthony Trollope
Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices? -- Anthony Trollope
Above all else, never think you're not good enough. -- Anthony Trollope
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 is always there. -- Anthony Trollope
Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest. -- Anthony Trollope
A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties ... and when he is wanted, he can always do his work. -- Anthony Trollope
My dear, the truth must be spoken. I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you are. When are you to begin to think about getting married if you don't do it now?"
"I shall never begin to think about it, till I buy my wedding clothes. -- Anthony Trollope
Shall a man have nothing of his own; -- no sorrow in his heart, no care in his family, no thought in his breast so private and special to him, but that, if he happen to be a clergyman, the bishop may touch it with his thumb?'
I am not the bishop's thumb,' said Mr. Thumble -- Anthony Trollope
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? ... Was ever anything so civil? -- Anthony Trollope
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men. -- Anthony Trollope
In such families as [Nidderdale's], when such results have been achieved, it is generally understood that matters shall be put right by an heiress. [ ... ] Rank squanders money; trade makes it;
and then trade purchases rank by re-gilding its splendour -- Anthony Trollope
Not, at any rate, such a woman as her. It went against the grain with Mr. Sowerby, this seeking of pecuniary assistance from the very woman whose hand he had attempted to gain about a fortnight since; but he allowed his sister to prevail. What -- Anthony Trollope
She went up to her room, disembarrassed herself of her finery, -- Anthony Trollope
The heroes of life are so much better than the heroes of romance," said Caroline. -- Anthony Trollope
Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends? -- Anthony Trollope
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. -- Anthony Trollope
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction. -- Anthony Trollope
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. -- Anthony Trollope
She had been notably religious, but that was gradually wearing off as she advanced in years. The rigid strictness of Sabbatarian practice requires the full energy of middle life. -- Anthony Trollope
I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice. -- Anthony Trollope
When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable. -- Anthony Trollope
I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving. -- Anthony Trollope
The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments. -- Anthony Trollope
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully. -- Anthony Trollope
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere. -- Anthony Trollope
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life. -- Anthony Trollope
But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling. -- Anthony Trollope
It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,
should you choose to go on with my chronicle,
simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others. -- Anthony Trollope
Morning parties, as a rule, are failures. People never know how to get away from them gracefully. -- Anthony Trollope
When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural. -- Anthony Trollope
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal. -- Anthony Trollope
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition. -- Anthony Trollope
It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it. -- Anthony Trollope
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract. -- Anthony Trollope
I like everything old-fashioned," said Eleanor; "old-fashioned things are so much the honestest. -- Anthony Trollope
Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly. -- Anthony Trollope
He (The warden) was painfully afraid of a disagreement with any person in any subject ... he felt horror at the thought of being made the subject of common gossip and public criticism. -- Anthony Trollope
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself. -- Anthony Trollope
Who doubts that? How many very bad things are there that we do! But if we were to attempt to reform all our bad ways at once, we should never do any good thing. I am not strong enough to put the world straight, and I doubt if you are." Such -- Anthony Trollope
Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself. -- Anthony Trollope
If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week. -- Anthony Trollope
(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 that has enabled him to dispense with human nature. -- Anthony Trollope
Short accounts make long friends. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XVI MR. GOTOBED'S PHILANTHROPY -- Anthony Trollope
No one ever on seeing Mr Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man. -- Anthony Trollope
When a man tells me that a horse is an armchair, I always tell him to put the brute into his bedroom. -- Anthony Trollope
I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world -- Anthony Trollope
On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it. -- Anthony Trollope
Frank Gresham, when twitted with being a Whig, foreswore the de Courcy family; and then, when ridiculed as having been thrown over by the Tories, foreswore his father's old friends. So -- Anthony Trollope
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? -- Anthony Trollope
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind. -- Anthony Trollope
How constantly in her triumph would she be able to forget all his vices, his debts, his gambling, his late hours, and his cruel treatment of herself! As -- Anthony Trollope
A thunderbolt at her feet could hardly have surprised or annoyed her more. If -- Anthony Trollope
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. -- Anthony Trollope
When a man gets into his head an idea that the public voice calls for him, it is astonishing how great becomes his trust in the wisdom of the public. -- Anthony Trollope
I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right. -- Anthony Trollope
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end. -- Anthony Trollope
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described. -- Anthony Trollope
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars. -- Anthony Trollope
Dr Grantly is by no means a bad man; he is exactly the man which such an education as his was most likely to form; his intellect being sufficient for such a place in the world, but not sufficient to put him in advance of it. -- Anthony Trollope
An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress. -- Anthony Trollope
Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel? -- Anthony Trollope
In judging of them, he judged leniently; the whole bias of his profession had taught him to think that they were more sinned against than sinning, and that the animosity with which they had been pursued was venomous and unjust; but he had not the less regarded their plight as most miserable. -- Anthony Trollope
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. -- Anthony Trollope
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer. -- Anthony Trollope
An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals. -- Anthony Trollope
But things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him. -- Anthony Trollope
I ain't a bit ashamed of anything. -- 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
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason. -- Anthony Trollope
That was all there was, and that had not been very bad. During -- Anthony Trollope
He's a very handsome man, is the captain," said Jeaneatte ...
"You shouldn't think about handsome men, child," said Mrs. Greenow.
"And I'm sure I don't," said Jeanette. "Not more than anybody else; but if a man is handsome, ma'am, why, it stands to reason that he is handsome. -- Anthony Trollope
I do like a little romance ... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that. -- Anthony Trollope
Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything. -- Anthony Trollope
A man has usually to work through much mud before he gets his nugget. -- Anthony Trollope
A sermon is not to tell you what you are, but what you ought to be, and a novel should tell you not what you are to get, but what you'd like to get. -- Anthony Trollope
As man is never strong enough to take unmixed delight in good, so may we presume also that he cannot be quite so weak as to find perfect satisfaction in evil. -- Anthony Trollope
A woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Anthony Trollope
That there should be so wide a difference between us Americans and these English, from whom we were divided, so to say, but the other day, is one of the most peculiar physiological phenomena that the history of the world will have afforded. As -- Anthony Trollope
But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces. -- Anthony Trollope
The end of a novel, like the end of children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum -- Anthony Trollope
The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow. -- Anthony Trollope
To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult! -- Anthony Trollope
Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XLIII PERSECUTION -- Anthony Trollope
Those who depart must have earned such sorrow before it can be really felt. -- Anthony Trollope
Lady Linlithgow, too, though very strong, was old. She was slow, or perhaps it might more properly be said she was stately in her movements. -- Anthony Trollope
She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration. -- Anthony Trollope
Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse. -- Anthony Trollope
Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the noblest work of an Englishman. -- Anthony Trollope
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people. -- Anthony Trollope
Olivia Proudie, however, was a girl of spirit: she had the blood of two peers in her veins, and better still she had another lover on her books, so Mr. Slope sighed in vain, and the pair soon found it convenient to establish a mutual bond of inveterate hatred. -- Anthony Trollope
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false. -- Anthony Trollope
As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives. -- Anthony Trollope
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face. -- Anthony Trollope
Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband. -- Anthony Trollope
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States. -- Anthony Trollope
The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice. -- Anthony Trollope
A clergyman generally dislikes to be met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose, -- Anthony Trollope
My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best. -- Anthony Trollope
There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons. -- Anthony Trollope
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. -- Anthony Trollope
Disembarrass the other. -- Anthony Trollope
The so-called Conservative, the conscientious, philanthropic Conservative, seeing this, and being surely convinced that such inequalities are of divine origin, tells himself that it is his duty to preserve them. -- Anthony Trollope
In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares. -- Anthony Trollope
Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm. -- Anthony Trollope
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. -- Anthony Trollope
Beware of creating tedium! -- Anthony Trollope
But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women. -- Anthony Trollope
I think I owe my life to cork soles. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXXII 'BID HIM BE A MAN -- Anthony Trollope
And so he walked on from day to day studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god. -- Anthony Trollope
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. -- Anthony Trollope
She was not softly delicate in all her ways; but in disposition and temper she was altogether generous. I do not know that she was at all points a lady, but had Fate so willed it she would have been a thorough gentleman. -- Anthony Trollope
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so. -- Anthony Trollope
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy. -- Anthony Trollope
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes. -- Anthony Trollope
They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts! -- Anthony Trollope
But women can bear anything better than desertion. Cruelty is bad, but neglect is worse than cruelty, and desertion worse even than neglect. -- Anthony Trollope
Never mingle love and business. -- Anthony Trollope
What is there that money will not do? -- Anthony Trollope
It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it. -- Anthony Trollope
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew. -- Anthony Trollope
He was doing nothing, thinking of nothing, looking at nothing; he was merely suffering. -- Anthony Trollope
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness. -- Anthony Trollope
After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XIV THE DILLSBOROUGH FEUD -- Anthony Trollope
I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays. -- Anthony Trollope
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants. -- Anthony Trollope
A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration. -- Anthony Trollope
The night was bright with stars, but there was no moon in the heavens, and the gloom of the ivy-coloured church tower was complete. But all the outlines of the place were so well known to him that he could trace them all in the dim light. -- Anthony Trollope
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower. -- Anthony Trollope
It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city. -- Anthony Trollope
A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds. -- Anthony Trollope
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. -- Anthony Trollope
Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them. -- Anthony Trollope
I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury. -- Anthony Trollope
The castle itself was a huge brick pile, built in the days of William III., which, though they were grand days for the construction of the constitution, were not very grand for architecture of a more material description. -- Anthony Trollope
Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise. -- Anthony Trollope
It's dogged as does it. -- Anthony Trollope
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable. -- Anthony Trollope
To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself. -- Anthony Trollope
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it. -- Anthony Trollope
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. -- Anthony Trollope
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. -- Anthony Trollope
Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence. -- Anthony Trollope
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another. -- Anthony Trollope
The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally. -- Anthony Trollope
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark. -- Anthony Trollope
There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only. -- Anthony Trollope
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May. -- Anthony Trollope
It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure. -- Anthony Trollope
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels. -- Anthony Trollope
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it. -- Anthony Trollope
I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views. -- Anthony Trollope
I like to have a plan," said Mr. Palliser. "And so do I," said his wife,
"if only for the sake of not keeping it. -- Anthony Trollope
I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas.
'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true. -- Anthony Trollope
Gift bread chokes in a man's throat and poisons his blood, and sits like lead upon the heart. -- Anthony Trollope
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world. -- Anthony Trollope
A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else. -- Anthony Trollope
Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart. -- Anthony Trollope
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. -- Anthony Trollope
Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle. -- Anthony Trollope
There's nothing like going on with a thing. -- Anthony Trollope
A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her. -- Anthony Trollope
For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden. -- Anthony Trollope
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXIX SCROBBY'S TRIAL -- Anthony Trollope
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it. -- Anthony Trollope
Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself? -- Anthony Trollope
There are men whose energies hardly ever carry them beyond looking for the thing they want. -- Anthony Trollope
He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so. -- Anthony Trollope
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger. -- Anthony Trollope
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,
cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness. -- Anthony Trollope
And you know, aunt, I still hope that I shall be found to have kept on the right side of the posts. You will find that poor Lord Chiltern is not so black as he is painted.' 'But why take anybody that is black at all?' 'I like a little shade in the picture, aunt. -- Anthony Trollope
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. -- Anthony Trollope
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners. -- Anthony Trollope
The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes. -- Anthony Trollope
Book love ... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. -- Anthony Trollope
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour. -- Anthony Trollope
Lord Fawn did not immediately recognise the falseness of every word that the woman said to him, because he was slow and could not think and hear at the same time. -- Anthony Trollope
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XLI THE SENATOR IS BADLY TREATED -- Anthony Trollope
He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden. -- Anthony Trollope
The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature. -- Anthony Trollope
But, like some other undiplomatic ambassadors, in her desire to be civil, she ran at once to the extremity of the permitted concessions. -- Anthony Trollope
She was dark, thin, healthy, good-looking, clever, ambitious, rich, unsatisfied, perhaps unscrupulous - but not without a conscience. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XXXV CHOWTON FARM FOR SALE -- Anthony Trollope
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. -- Anthony Trollope
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work. -- Anthony Trollope
Mrs Draper took this as an order for her departure, and crept silently out of the room, closing the door behind her with the long protracted elaborate click which is always produced by an attempt at silence on such occasions. -- Anthony Trollope
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
A bull in a china shop is not a useful animal, nor is he ornamental, but there can be no doubt of his energy. The hare was full of energy, but he didn't win the race. The man who stands still is the man who keeps his ground. -- Anthony Trollope
After all, then, she was not a clever woman, - not more clever than other women around her! -- Anthony Trollope
Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels. -- Anthony Trollope
A husband is very much like a house or a horse. -- Anthony Trollope
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. -- Anthony Trollope
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XL LORD RUFFORD WANTS TO SEE A HORSE -- Anthony Trollope
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. -- Anthony Trollope
It is not what one suffers that kills one, but what one knows that other people see that one suffers. -- Anthony Trollope
Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage. -- Anthony Trollope
It was Mr. Gotobed, who had just returned from a visit which he had made, the circumstances of which must be narrated in the next chapter. The -- Anthony Trollope
Lord Chiltern Rides His Horse Bonebreaker -- Anthony Trollope
He was not witty, nor did he deal in anecdotes. -- Anthony Trollope
The writer of stories must please, or he will be nothing. And he must teach whether he wish to teach or no. How -- Anthony Trollope
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing -- Anthony Trollope
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more. -- Anthony Trollope
Everything about her room betokened wealth; but she had put away the French novels, and had placed a Bible on a little table, not quite hidden, behind her own seat. -- Anthony Trollope
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty. -- Anthony Trollope
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom. -- Anthony Trollope
He has gone, Mamma,' she said, as she entered the breakfast-room. 'And now we'll go back to our work-a-day ways. It has been all Sunday for me the last six weeks. -- Anthony Trollope
A man who is a gentleman in his cups may be trusted to be a gentleman at all times. -- Anthony Trollope
It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change. -- Anthony Trollope
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. -- Anthony Trollope
The rising in life of our familiar friends is, perhaps, the bitterest morsel of the bitter bread which we are called upon to eat in life. -- Anthony Trollope
He is no better than anybody else that I can see, and he is beginning to give himself airs, -- Anthony Trollope
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. -- Anthony Trollope
If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high. -- Anthony Trollope
A man can't do what he likes with his coverts. -- Anthony Trollope
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces. -- Anthony Trollope
Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it. -- Anthony Trollope
No one but a preaching clergyman has, in these realms, the power of compelling an audience to sit silent and be tormented. -- Anthony Trollope
You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LVII MRS. MORTON RETURNS -- Anthony Trollope
Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future, - never reached but always coming. -- Anthony Trollope
You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached himself this sermon, declared to himself that they who attempted more than this flew too high in the clouds to be of service to men an women upon the earth -- Anthony Trollope
Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description. -- Anthony Trollope
Men who think much want to speak often, -- Anthony Trollope
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XXI THE FIRST EVENING AT RUFFORD HALL -- Anthony Trollope
When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise. -- Anthony Trollope
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. -- Anthony Trollope
Of one small circumstance that had occurred, he felt quite sure that Mr. Kennedy knew nothing. -- Anthony Trollope
The most deadly enemies of the Roman Catholics are they who love best their religion as Protestants. When we look to individuals we always find it so, though it hardly suits us to admit as much when we discuss these subjects broadly. -- Anthony Trollope
I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. -- Anthony Trollope
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 elapsed since it was written. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XV A FIT COMPANION, - FOR ME AND MY SISTERS -- Anthony Trollope
That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man. -- Anthony Trollope
The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth. -- Anthony Trollope
The fight has been going on since...dominion in this world has found itself capable of sustentation by the exercise of fear as to the world to come. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXXIX THE LAST DAYS OF MARY MASTERS -- Anthony Trollope
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted. -- Anthony Trollope
There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain. -- Anthony Trollope
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. -- Anthony Trollope
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? What sister could do so? -- Anthony Trollope
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed. -- Anthony Trollope
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXXI 'MY OWN, OWN HUSBAND -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXI THE SUCCESS OF LADY AUGUSTUS -- Anthony Trollope
Life is so unlike theory. -- Anthony Trollope
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth. -- Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXX AT LAST -- Anthony Trollope
There is such a difference between life and theory. -- Anthony Trollope
When men think much, they can rarely decide. -- Anthony Trollope
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. -- Anthony Trollope
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old. -- Anthony Trollope
