Anthony Trollope Quotes - Page 6

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.

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

Easy reading requires hard writing.

Never mingle love and business.

To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, - in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.

I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.

People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.

Life is so unlike theory.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.