Quotes for All
With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it. Anthony Trollope
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so. Anthony Trollope
I think I owe my life to cork soles. Anthony Trollope
I do like a little romance… just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven’t got that. Anthony Trollope
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end. Anthony Trollope
A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right is doing; it should be taken without a thought, without a look, without a move of the facial muscles; the true physician should hardly be aware that the last friendly grasp of the hand has been made more precious by … Read more
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
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. Anthony Trollope