Quotes from Anthony Trollope

If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil!

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it.

You shall be my pet, and my poppet, and my dearest little duck all the days of your life.

It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary.

A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.

I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving.

There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

I don't like anybody or anything, said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

Wounds sometimes must be opened in order that they may be healed.

The end of a novel, like the end of children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum

Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.

Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence.

Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity.

My dear, the truth must be spoken. I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you are. When are you to begin to think about getting married if you don't do it now? I shall never begin to think about it, till I buy my wedding clothes.

Life is so unlike theory.

Then in this country a man is to be punished or not, according to his ability to fee a lawyer!

She became aware that she had thought the less of him because he had thought the more of her. She had worshipped this other man because he had assumed superiority and had told her that he was big enough to be her master. But now, -- now that it was all too late, -- the veil had fallen from her eyes. She could now see the difference between manliness and 'deportment.

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

It is seldom that we know anything accurately on any subject that we have not made matter of careful study, said Mr. Monk, and very often do not do so even then. We are very apt to think that we men and women understand one another; but most probably you know nothing even of the modes of thought of the man who lives next door to you.

Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm.

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.