Quotes from Anthony Trollope

Cuando un hombre desea utilizar palabras ardientes, debe usarlas mientras siguen en llamas.

you may be sure of one thing; I shall always judge my father to be right, and those who oppose him I shall judge to be wrong. If those who do not know him oppose him, I shall have charity enough to believe that they are wrong, through error of judgment; but should I see him attacked by those who ought to know him, and to love him, and revere him, of such I shall be constrained to form a different opinion." And

But the character of a man is not to be judged from the pictures which he may draw or from the antics which he may play in his solitary hours. Those who act generally with the most consummate wisdom in the affairs of the world, often meditate very silly doings before their wiser resolutions form themselves.

He was almost inclined to think that marriage was an old-fashioned custom, fitted indeed well enough for the usual dull life of the world at large, — as many men both in heathen and in Christian ages have taught themselves to think of religion, — but which was not adapted to his advanced intelligence.

CHAPTER XLV LORD RUFFORD MAKES UP HIS MIND

when that blow should fall, — Lucy would require very different treatment than might be expected for her from the hands of Lady Linlithgow. She would fade and fall to the earth like a flower with an insect at its root. She would be like a wounded branch, into which no sap would run

but there might be a question whether he was not paying too dearly for his whistle. And

Indeed, doctor, I wish you would. I wish you'd send him to Bath, or anywhere else out of the way. There is Scatcherd, he takes brandy; and there is Winterbones, he takes gin; and it'd puzzle a woman to say which is worst, master or man.

What to do with the Lookalofts even Mr. Plomacy could not decide. They must take their chance. They had been specially told in the invitation that all the tenants had been invited, and they might probably have the good sense to stay away if they objected to mix with the rest of the tenantry.

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

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

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

Never mingle love and business.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.