559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.

It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.

I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.