Anthony Trollope quotes - page 5

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything. (Anthony Trollope)

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

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I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

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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.

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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

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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.

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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)

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.

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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

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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.

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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

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

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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

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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.

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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. (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.

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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

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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.

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Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

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Anthony Trollope

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Occupation: English Novelist
Born: April 24, 1815
Died: December 6, 1882
Quotes count: 178
Wikipedia: Anthony Trollope

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