The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Anthony Trollope

What is there that money will not do?
Anthony Trollope

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
Anthony Trollope

Life is so unlike theory.
Anthony Trollope

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
Anthony Trollope

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

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
Anthony Trollope

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
Anthony Trollope