559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

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.

Life is so unlike theory.

Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted "The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people.

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

To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.