anthony-trollope Quotes About thinking

“But the character of a man is not to be judged from the pictures which he may draw or from the antics which he may play in his solitary hours. Those who act generally with the most consummate wisdom in the affairs of the world, often meditate very silly doings before their wiser resolutions form themselves.”

Thinking Imagination Meditation Thoughts Thought

Book:The Belton Estate

Source: The Belton Estate

“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.”

Thinking Littles Done Character Spirit Speak Given Hurt Angry Charity Ill Proof Considering

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.”

Thinking New York Fifth Avenues Fifth Avenue

Book:North America

Source: North America

“I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.”

Thinking Knows Believe Hands Views Thousand Regard Mere Lawyer Fees Wigs

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.”

People Thinking Knows World Romance Goes On Married

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.”

Thinking Men Should Wells May Sides Comfort Division Patriot Equity Partisans Crumbs

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.”

Thinking Men Character Girl Can Do Wife Married Suits

Author:Anthony Trollope

“I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.”

Thinking Children Reason Ready Ought

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.”

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“I think I owe my life to cork soles.”

Thinking Gratitude Wit Cork

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.”

Thinking Should Law Amount Lawyer Coffee Loyalty Convince Clients Eloquence Orators Grocers

Book:Orley farm

Source: Orley farm

“I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.”

Ifs Thinking Should Fields Ready Fit Angel Grass Thrown Atoms Afterlife Burned Should I Worms Pits Archangel

Book:The Letters of Anthony Trollope

Source: The Letters of Anthony Trollope

“What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?”

Thinking Men Change Wife Suits Love And Marriage

Author:Anthony Trollope

“It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking”

Thinking Should Has Beens Hard Young Solitude Delight Execution Schemes

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.”

Thinking Honesty Rogues

Book:The Three Clerks: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Three Clerks: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Above all else, never think you're not good enough.”

Thinking Enough Motivational Good Enough Not Good Enough

Author:Anthony Trollope

“Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.”

People Thinking Men Inspirational Should Enough Motivational Self Esteem Confidence Integrity Good Enough Body Image Not Good Enough Reckoning

Author:Anthony Trollope

“I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.”

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.”

Thinking Inspirational Doe

Author:Anthony Trollope

“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”

Thinking Men Literature Human Nature Vanity

Author:Anthony Trollope

“When men think much, they can rarely decide.”

Thinking Men

Book:Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite

Source: Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite

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