559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

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

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.