“The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.”
Anthony Trollope Quotes
1815 – 1882
English novelist, author of the Chronicles of Barsetshire.
23 quotesAbout Anthony Trollope on Wikipedia
“Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.”
“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”
“Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.”
“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
“There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.”
“Next to a sum of money down, a grievance is the best thing you can have.”
“He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.”
“Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre.”
“Courtesy should have kept him silent, even if neither charity nor modesty could do so.”
“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”
“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
“There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.”
“I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.”
“It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.”
“One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things.”
