Anthony Trollope quotes
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.
"One evening call," said he, "is worth ten in the morning. It's all formality in the morning; real social talk never begins till after dinner."
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,-and a sceptre because the most mighty one wields it.
And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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.
Life is so unlike theory.
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.
"One evening call," said he, "is worth ten in the morning. It's all formality in the morning; real social talk never begins till after dinner."
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,-and a sceptre because the most mighty one wields it.
And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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.
Life is so unlike theory.
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.