I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men. Anthony Trollope More Quotes by Anthony Trollope More Quotes From Anthony Trollope It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others. Anthony Trollope purpose goes-on looks There's nothing like going on with a thing. Anthony Trollope perseverance wisdom gone If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high. Anthony Trollope treats should wish The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth. Anthony Trollope best-education wells education Short accounts make long friends. Anthony Trollope accounts money long No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client. Anthony Trollope coffee loyalty thinking But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women. Anthony Trollope balls marriage beautiful I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so. Anthony Trollope eight mad men It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing Anthony Trollope hard listening men It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking Anthony Trollope execution solitude thinking Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses. Anthony Trollope poison taken should What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? Anthony Trollope change men thinking I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels. Anthony Trollope afterlife angel thinking The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt. Anthony Trollope differences house character When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices. Anthony Trollope society practice wise Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands. Anthony Trollope gentleman country hands Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away. Anthony Trollope credit essence may A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces. Anthony Trollope fellows pieces literature When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise. Anthony Trollope done men world You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew. Anthony Trollope has-beens angel men
