Frases de Anthony Trollope

“Maravilhoso é o poder que pode ser exercido, quase inconscientemente, sobre uma empresa, ou um indivíduo, ou mesmo sobre uma multidão, por uma pessoa de boa índole, boa digestão, bom intelecto e bom aspecto.”

“Nenhum de nós sabe qual o peso que consegue suportar, e qual o peso que nos partirá as costas.”

“Para os vaidosos tudo será vaidade, para os pobres de espírito tudo será pobre.”

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?… Was ever anything so civil?”

“Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.”

“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”

“If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.”

“"I think it is so glorious," said the American. "There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty."”

“There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality.”

“Speak to me of honour, of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.”

“But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, — which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!”

“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.”

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”

“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”

“To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.”

“The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.”

“She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.”

“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.”

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

“Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.”

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

“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”

“Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.”

“Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.”

“I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.”

“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

“One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.”

“He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, — and therefore he'll be a success.”

“Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.”

“Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.”

“The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _____; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that something personal was intended; and as this tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the of the town in question, we are anxious that no personality may be suspected.”

“Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.”