Anthony Trollope

She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration.

It has now become the doctrine of a large class of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.

Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre. It is a throne because the most exalted one sits there,aaand a sceptre because the most mighty one wields it.

It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies--who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two--that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.

To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged is a man's delight to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.

The bishop did not whistle we believe that they lose the power of doing so on being consecrated.

They say that faint heart never won fair lady and it is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts

No virtue could charm him, no vice shock him. He had about him a natural good manner, which seemed to qualify him for the highest circles, and yet he was never out of place in the lowest.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . .

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony . . .

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself

She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

What is there that money will not do

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.