Anthony Trollope - Work Quotes

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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope
It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story "The Great Orley Farm Case." But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore, — Orley Farm.

Anthony Trollope
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.

Anthony Trollope
She's a screw, of course, but there isn't anything carries Chiltern so well. There's nothing like a good screw. A man'll often go with two hundred and fifty guineas between his legs, supposed to be all there because the animal's sound, and yet he don't know his work. If you like schooling a young 'un, that's all very well. I used to be fond of it myself.

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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.

Anthony Trollope
The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.

Anthony Trollope
Of a radical politician:
It was his work to cut down forest-trees, and he had nothing to do with the subsequent cultivation of the land.

Anthony Trollope
I know that you have indented to serve your country, and have wished to work for it. But you cannot expect that it should all be roses.
Roses! The nosegays which are worn down at Westminister are made of garlick and dandelions!

Anthony Trollope
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, — otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

Anthony Trollope
My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

Anthony Trollope
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

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