559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

A liar has many points to his favour, – but he has this against him, that unless he devote more time to the management of his lies than life will generally allow, he cannot make them tally.

Great was the anger of Lady Arabella, loud were the protestations of the girl, mute the woe of her father, piteous the tears of her mother, inexorable the judgment of the Greshamsbury world. But.

He has gone, Mamma,′ she said, as she entered the breakfast-room. ‘And now we’ll go back to our work-a-day ways. It has been all Sunday for me the last six weeks.

Yes; – if there were children. And it will come back to her if he dies first. But mad people never do die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever. It’ll all go to some cousin of his that nobody ever saw.

The party to which he belonged had, as he knew, endeavoured to avoid the subject of the disendowment of the Church of England. It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

Blessed are the peace-makers,’ miss, ’for they shall be called the children of God.

But yet his thoughts were very tender to her. Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless. We want what we have not; and especially that which we can never have.

There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things.

Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?