114 quotes
A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope (1883)
A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.
Ayala's Angel (1881)
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
Is He Popenjoy? (1878)
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
North America (1862)
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
An Autobiography (1883)
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
Barchester Towers (1857)
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
Phineas Finn (1869)
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.
An Autobiography (1883)
Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
The Small House at Allington (1864)
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
An Autobiography (1883)
She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Barchester Towers (1857)
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
The Duke's Children (1879)
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Doctor Thorne (1858)
Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.
An Autobiography (1883)
Mothers obtain it from their children, and men from their dogs.
Barchester Towers (1857)
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
The Bertrams (1859)
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Barchester Towers (1857)
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
The Prime Minister (1876)
The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.
The Warden (1855)