I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason. Anthony Trollope More Quotes by Anthony Trollope More Quotes From Anthony Trollope It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life. Anthony Trollope speech everyday enemy My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best. Anthony Trollope writing men book We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom. Anthony Trollope claims special believe Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend Quarter Sessions, and be able to declare morning and evening with a clear conscience that the country was going to the dogs? Such was the mental working of many a Conservative who supported Mr. Daubeny on this occasion. Anthony Trollope dog morning country A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give. Anthony Trollope letters giving world I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal. Anthony Trollope success running mean There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man. Anthony Trollope fate would-be men When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition. Anthony Trollope blessed father book It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith. Anthony Trollope may men believe There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false. Anthony Trollope knows men Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted "The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people. Anthony Trollope church religious people Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. Anthony Trollope copyright england Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself. Anthony Trollope honesty girl men If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love. Anthony Trollope car falling-in-love journey I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston. Anthony Trollope boston clever men It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one. Anthony Trollope struggle self fire Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. Anthony Trollope audacity virtue men Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States. Anthony Trollope taken cities fall Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century. Anthony Trollope quarters century towers The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. Anthony Trollope plums party children
