Anthony Trollope

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth. ”

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that. ”

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything. ”

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg. ”

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. ”

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason. ”

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ”

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable. ”

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit. ”

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