Anthony Trollope

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

Now a conjuror is I think a very pleasant fellow to have among us, if we know that he is a conjuror; — but a conjuror who is believed to do his tricks without sleight of hand is a dangerous man.

Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman’s love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

But facts always convince, and another man‘s opinion rarely convinces.

He has the power of making the world believe him simply because he has been rich and a duke.

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.