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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 an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.
— Anthony Trollope
Life is so unlike theory.
— 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
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
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
— 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
It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.
— 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
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
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
— Anthony Trollope
Mrs Grantly after her father's death. This matter, therefore, had been taken out of the warden's hands
— Anthony Trollope
There's nothing like going on with a thing.
— Anthony Trollope
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
— Anthony Trollope
Short accounts make long friends.
— 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
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
CHAPTER XV A FIT COMPANION, - FOR ME AND MY SISTERS
— Anthony Trollope
Gift bread chokes in a man's throat and poisons his blood, and sits like lead upon the heart.
— Anthony Trollope
Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.
— Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXIX SCROBBY'S TRIAL
— 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
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
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
— Anthony Trollope
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
— 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
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
CHAPTER LXXII 'BID HIM BE A MAN
— Anthony Trollope
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
— 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
A woman's weapon is her tongue.
— Anthony Trollope
Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
— Anthony Trollope
Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.
— Anthony Trollope
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
— Anthony Trollope
He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it.
— Anthony Trollope
After all, then, she was not a clever woman, - not more clever than other women around her!
— 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
CHAPTER XXXV CHOWTON FARM FOR SALE
— 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
It's dogged as does it.
— Anthony Trollope
The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.
— Anthony Trollope
side. When she tries to explain her passion for it he reminds her how Anthony Trollope wrote all his books after a hard day's work at the Post Office.
— Marcia Willett
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
— 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 mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
— Anthony Trollope
Few men do understand the nature of a woman's heart till years have robbed such understanding of its value.
— 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
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
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
For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.
— Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XVI MR. GOTOBED'S PHILANTHROPY
— Anthony Trollope
But things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him.
— 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
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
When a man tells me that a horse is an armchair, I always tell him to put the brute into his bedroom.
— Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XXI THE FIRST EVENING AT RUFFORD HALL
— Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XXIX THE SENATOR'S LETTER
— 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
Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?
— 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
Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future, - never reached but always coming.
— 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 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
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
My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.
— Kevin McCloud
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
CHAPTER XLII MR. MAINWARING'S LITTLE DINNER
— Anthony Trollope
I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice.
— Anthony Trollope
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
— 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
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
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
— Anthony Trollope
Of one small circumstance that had occurred, he felt quite sure that Mr. Kennedy knew nothing.
— Anthony Trollope
