559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.