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.

- Anthony Trollope

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great und…

- Anthony Trollope

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

- Anthony Trollope

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

- Anthony Trollope

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

- Anthony Trollope

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.

- Anthony Trollope

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

- Anthony Trollope

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

- Anthony Trollope

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

- Anthony Trollope