Anthony Trollope Quotes

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

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.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

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 !.

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.