Anthony Trollope Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.”

“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.”

“Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.”

“A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.”

“My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.”

“There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.”

“Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.”

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

“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.”

“The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.”