114 quotes
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Orley Farm (1862)
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
Framley Parsonage (1861)
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
The Bertrams (1859)
The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
The Duke's Children (1879)
There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the necessity of listening to sermons.
Barchester Towers (1857)
From all evil against which the law bars you, you should be barred, at an infinite distance, by honour, by conscience, and nobility.
The Duke's Children (1879)
He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.
The Warden (1855)
He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
The Prime Minister (1876)
She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.
Barchester Towers (1857)
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Barchester Towers (1857)
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.
He Knew He Was Right (1869)
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
The Small House at Allington (1864)
I always thought there was very little wit wanted to make a fortune in the City.
The Prime Minister (1876)
Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
An Autobiography (1883)
You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.
The Prime Minister (1876)
There is such a difference between life and theory.
Phineas Finn (1869)