Anthony Trollope Quotes - Page 2

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

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.

Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

What is there that money will not do?

It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

Beware of creating tedium!

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.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

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.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

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.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

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

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.