Anthony Trollope
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.Collection: Winter
There is such a difference between life and theory.Collection: Differences
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.Collection: Believe
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothingCollection: Men
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.Collection: Lying
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.Collection: Religious
After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Regret
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.Collection: Book
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.Collection: Hurt
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.Collection: Reading
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.Collection: Girl
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.Collection: Mistake
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.Collection: People
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.Collection: Giving
Beware of creating tedium!Collection: Creating
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Men
But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.Collection: People
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.Collection: Clever
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.Collection: Believe
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.Collection: Rome
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.Collection: Men
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.Collection: Men
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Romance
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.Collection: Simple
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.Collection: Done
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.Collection: Heart
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.Collection: Enemy
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.Collection: Winning
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.Collection: Devil
I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Men
The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.Collection: Men
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Country
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.Collection: Sometimes
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.Collection: Looks
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.Collection: Towers
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.Collection: Aristocracy
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.Collection: Father
Short accounts make long friends.Collection: Money
A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.Collection: Sports
That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Punishment
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.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Ambition
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.Collection: Mistake