Anthony Trollope Quotes

Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm.

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!

Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence.

She became aware that she had thought the less of him because he had thought the more of her. She had worshipped this other man because he had assumed superiority and had told her that he was big enough to be her master. But now, — now that it was all too late, — the veil had fallen from her eyes. She could now see the difference between manliness and 'deportment.

"My dear, the truth must be spoken. I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you are. When are you to begin to think about getting married if you don't do it now?"
"I shall never begin to think about it, till I buy my wedding clothes."

Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity.

The end of a novel, like the end of children’s dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum

Then in this country a man is to be punished or not, according to his ability to fee a lawyer!

Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.

"I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda.

Yes, you do; — you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

It was a beautiful summer afternoon, at that delicious period of the year when summer has just burst forth from the growth of spring; when the summer is yet but three days old, and all the various shades of green which nature can put forth are still in their unsoiled purity of freshness.

As for reading, I doubt whether she did much better by the sea-side than she had done in the town. Men and women say that they will read, and think so — those, I mean, who have acquired no habit of reading — believing the work to be, of all works, the easiest. It may be work, they think, but of all works it must be the easiest of achievement. Given the absolute faculty of reading, the task of going through the pages of a book must be, of all tasks, the most certainly within the grasp of the man or woman who attempts it. Alas! no; if the habit be not there, of all tasks it is the most difficult.

A clergyman generally dislikes being met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose.

A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her.