Anthony Trollope Quotes

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it.

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.

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.

She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.

"I can never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.

Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.

Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

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.