Quotes by Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

British writer

Lived from: 1815 - 1882

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 24 april 1815 Died: 6 december 1882

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  • I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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  • I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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  • I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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  • I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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  • 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.
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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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  • It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Life is so unlike theory.
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  • Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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  • 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.
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  • Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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  • No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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  • Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
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  • Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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