Quotes from Anthony Trollope

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

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

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

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

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.