559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

During his prison days his wife had to support herself as she might. The decent articles of furniture which they had put together were sold; she gave up their little house, and, bowed down by misery, she also was brought near to death. When he was liberated he at once got work; but those who have watched the lives of such people know how hard it is for them to recover lost ground.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another – some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

In judging of them, he judged leniently; the whole bias of his profession had taught him to think that they were more sinned against than sinning, and that the animosity with which they had been pursued was venomous and unjust; but he had not the less regarded their plight as most miserable.

If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.

The heroes of life are so much better than the heroes of romance,” said Caroline.

Ah, you think that anything naked must be indecent; even truth.

Had he yielded to the claim, the attack would have been as venomous, and very probably would have come from the same quarter.

There are certain phases of mind in which a man can neither ride nor shoot, nor play a stroke at billiards, nor remember a card at whist, – and to such a phase of mind had come both Crosbie and Dale after their conversation over the gate.

A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.