559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

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.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.