“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“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, quote from The Way We Live Now
“Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him. ”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future,—never reached but always coming. ”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil!”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“A woman's weapon is her tongue.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“Lovers with all the glories and all the graces are supposed to be plentiful as blackberries by girls of nineteen, but have been proved to be rare hothouse fruits by girls of twenty-nine.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“In such families as [Nidderdale's], when such results have been achieved, it is generally understood that matters shall be put right by an heiress. [....] Rank squanders money; trade makes it; -- and then trade purchases rank by re-gilding its splendour”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“There is the review intended to sell a book, — which comes out immediately after the appearance of the book, or sometimes before it; the review which gives reputation, but does not affect the sale, and which comes a little later; the review which snuffs a book out quietly; the review which is to raise or lower the author a single peg, or two pegs, as the case may be; the review which is suddenly to make an author, and the review which is to crush him.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“She went up to her room, disembarrassed herself of her finery,”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“After all, then, she was not a clever woman,—not more clever than other women around her! ”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“He liked to be kindly treated, to be praised and petted, to be well fed and caressed; and they who so treated him were his chosen friends. He had in this the instincts of a horse, not approaching the higher sympathies of a dog.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“As the high mountains are intersected by deep valleys, as puritanism in one age begets infidelity in the next, as in many countries the thickness of the winter's ice will be in proportion to the number of the summer musquitoes, so was the keenness of the hostility displayed on this occasion in proportion to the warmth of the support which was manifested. As the great man was praised, so also was he abused. ”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“It was a great thing,—a very great thing;—he had no hesitation in saying that it was one of the greatest things out. He didn't believe a greater thing had ever come out.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“Perhaps also Roger felt that were he to take up the cudgels for an argument he might be worsted in the combat, as in such combats success is won by practised skill rather than by truth.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“If one wants to keep one's self straight, one has to work hard at it, one way or the other. I suppose it all comes from the fall of Adam.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“Shall a woman be flayed alive because it is unfeminine in her to fight for her own skin?”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“Land is a luxury, and of all luxuries is the most costly. Now”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“A liar has many points to his favour,—but he has this against him, that unless he devote more time to the management of his lies than life will generally allow, he cannot make them tally.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“Those who depart must have earned such sorrow before it can be really felt. ”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“One seems inclined to think sometimes that any fool might do an honest business. But fraud requires a man to be alive and wide awake at every turn!”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“You can run down a demi-god only by making him out to be a demi-devil. These”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date April 24, 1815
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“Anyone can write good sex scenes. All you need is some basic knowledge of anatomy, the right vocabulary and some choice reading material. Experience has nothing to do with it.”
― Claire Kent, quote from Escorted
“This dude could read Pat the Bunnyand make it terrifying.”
― Diana Rowland, quote from Touch of the Demon
“Vade Mecum
I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry.”
― Billy Collins, quote from Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
“Travis shifted around so he could change places with Matt. He wanted to put his head on Matt’s chest. He wanted to hear Matt’s heartbeat. Make sure it was still there. He thought about the close call and how he had been Matt’s heartbeat today, his breath. If he was lucky, he still was. And if he was honest, as far back as a lonely night on a road outside of Latakia, Matt had become his heartbeat and his breath.”
― J.F. Smith, quote from Latakia
“And it will be a great boon to your friend. He’ll get the security he’s been searching for, the
confidence he never had, and I’ll get the rest of my life with you. Sometimes victory is won by
surrendering something great. And in surrender, we unburden ourselves so clarity can come through.
We’re all just men hiding behind curtains and impressive toys, Evelyn. He can have whatever trinket
validates his struggles, but he’ll never have your heart. That’s mine. I’ll surrender everything, except for you.”
― Lydia Michaels, quote from Coming Home
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