Anthony Trollope Quotes

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We have no statistics to tell us whether there be any such disproportion in class where men do not die early from overwork.

Anthony Trollope
The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

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

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

Anthony Trollope
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

Anthony Trollope
A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.

Anthony Trollope
Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

Anthony Trollope
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

Anthony Trollope
It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking

Anthony Trollope
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

Anthony Trollope
On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

Anthony Trollope
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

Anthony Trollope
Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

Anthony Trollope
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.

Anthony Trollope
A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.

Anthony Trollope