Anthony Trollope Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.”

“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”

“There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.”

“They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.”

“Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.”

“When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.”

“When men think much, they can rarely decide.”

“I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.”

“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.”

“It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.”