559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

What is there that money will not do?

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.