There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Doctor Wortle's School
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Barchester Towers
It is ... no doubt, true that thought will not at once produce wisdom. It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Small House at Allington
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Belton Estate
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Barchester Towers
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Small House at Allington
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Barchester Towers
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Doctor Thorne
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Last Chronicle of Barset
Never mingle love and business.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Barchester Towers
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