Quotes from Anthony Trollope

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

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

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.

Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

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

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

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

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.

You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

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

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.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

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