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What is there that money will not do?
— 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
I always love writing about children.
— Joanna Trollope
There is such a difference between life and theory.
— Anthony Trollope
There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.
— Anthony Trollope
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
— Anthony Trollope
Life is so unlike theory.
— 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
It is no good any longer to have any opinion upon anything.
— Anthony Trollope
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
— Joanna Trollope
Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
— Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XLIII PERSECUTION
— Anthony Trollope
The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.
— Joanna 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
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
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 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
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
— 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
CHAPTER LXXI 'MY OWN, OWN HUSBAND
— Anthony Trollope
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
— Anthony Trollope
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
— Anthony Trollope
You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
— Joanna 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
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
— Anthony Trollope
Men who think much want to speak often,
— Anthony Trollope
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
— Anthony Trollope
Short accounts make long friends.
— Anthony Trollope
Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
— 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
I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.
— 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
CHAPTER LXIX SCROBBY'S TRIAL
— Anthony Trollope
Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.
— 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
He is no better than anybody else that I can see, and he is beginning to give himself airs,
— 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
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
— Anthony Trollope
After all, then, she was not a clever woman, - not more clever than other women around her!
— Anthony Trollope
He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it.
— Anthony Trollope
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
— Anthony Trollope
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
— 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
No one but a preaching clergyman has, in these realms, the power of compelling an audience to sit silent and be tormented.
— Anthony Trollope
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
— Anthony Trollope
Of one small circumstance that had occurred, he felt quite sure that Mr. Kennedy knew nothing.
— Anthony Trollope
Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm.
— Anthony Trollope
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
— 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
Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends?
— 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
Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.
— Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXXII 'BID HIM BE A MAN
— Anthony Trollope
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
— Anthony Trollope
Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.
— 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
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
But things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him.
— Anthony Trollope
Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
— 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
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
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of 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
CHAPTER XLII MR. MAINWARING'S LITTLE DINNER
— 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
We're so useful, we practical people. We hold it altogether. But we're seen as killjoys, somehow. Most unfair.
— Joanna 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
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
— Anthony Trollope
It is not what one suffers that kills one, but what one knows that other people see that one suffers.
— Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XXI THE FIRST EVENING AT RUFFORD HALL
— Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XXXIV MARY'S LETTER
— Anthony Trollope
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
— Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XXIX THE SENATOR'S LETTER
— Anthony Trollope
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
— 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
When a man tells me that a horse is an armchair, I always tell him to put the brute into his bedroom.
— 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
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
— Anthony Trollope
Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?
— Anthony Trollope
I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice.
— Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXXIX THE LAST DAYS OF MARY MASTERS
— Anthony Trollope
He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.
— 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
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
— 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
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
— Anthony Trollope
Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future, - never reached but always coming.
— Anthony Trollope
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
— Anthony Trollope
The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.
— Anthony Trollope
My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.
— Kevin McCloud
CHAPTER XXXV CHOWTON FARM FOR SALE
— Anthony Trollope