Quote

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

Anthony Trollope

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
Autobiographer
Biographer
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Cork
Wit
Gratitude
Think
Thinking
Life
Soles

More quotes by Anthony Trollope

Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable not because it is desirable to have something to do.
Anthony Trollope
Image
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
Anthony Trollope
Image
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
Anthony Trollope
Image
As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, - in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.
Anthony Trollope
Image
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Anthony Trollope
Image
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
Anthony Trollope
Image
Though they were Liberals they were not democrats nor yet infidels.
Anthony Trollope
Image
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
Anthony Trollope
Image
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
Anthony Trollope
Image
It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.
Anthony Trollope
Image
Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.
Anthony Trollope
Image
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
Anthony Trollope
Image
It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.
Anthony Trollope
Image
He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
Anthony Trollope
Image
It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.
Anthony Trollope
Image
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?
Anthony Trollope
Image
If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.
Anthony Trollope
Image
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
Anthony Trollope
Image
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.
Anthony Trollope
Image
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
Anthony Trollope