559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.