The Way We Live Now Quotes

“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him. ”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“A woman's weapon is her tongue.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future,—never reached but always coming. ”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil!”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“A liar has many points to his favour,—but he has this against him, that unless he devote more time to the management of his lies than life will generally allow, he cannot make them tally.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“Lovers with all the glories and all the graces are supposed to be plentiful as blackberries by girls of nineteen, but have been proved to be rare hothouse fruits by girls of twenty-nine.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“She went up to her room, disembarrassed herself of her finery,”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“He liked to be kindly treated, to be praised and petted, to be well fed and caressed; and they who so treated him were his chosen friends. He had in this the instincts of a horse, not approaching the higher sympathies of a dog.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“In such families as [Nidderdale's], when such results have been achieved, it is generally understood that matters shall be put right by an heiress. [....] Rank squanders money; trade makes it; -- and then trade purchases rank by re-gilding its splendour”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“As the high mountains are intersected by deep valleys, as puritanism in one age begets infidelity in the next, as in many countries the thickness of the winter's ice will be in proportion to the number of the summer musquitoes, so was the keenness of the hostility displayed on this occasion in proportion to the warmth of the support which was manifested.  As the great man was praised, so also was he abused. ”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“There is the review intended to sell a book, — which comes out immediately after the appearance of the book, or sometimes before it; the review which gives reputation, but does not affect the sale, and which comes a little later; the review which snuffs a book out quietly; the review which is to raise or lower the author a single peg, or two pegs, as the case may be; the review which is suddenly to make an author, and the review which is to crush him.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“No doubt arrogance will produce submission; and there are men who take other men at the price those other men put upon themselves.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“It was a great thing,—a very great thing;—he had no hesitation in saying that it was one of the greatest things out.  He didn't believe a greater thing had ever come out.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“Perhaps also Roger felt that were he to take up the cudgels for an argument he might be worsted in the combat, as in such combats success is won by practised skill rather than by truth.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“After all, then, she was not a clever woman,—not more clever than other women around her! ”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“If one wants to keep one's self straight, one has to work hard at it, one way or the other.  I suppose it all comes from the fall of Adam.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“In such families as his, when such results have been achieved, it is generally understood that matters shall be put right by an heiress. It has become an institution, like primogeniture, and is almost as serviceable for maintaining the proper order of things.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“It was his misfortune,—and also his fault,—that he had submitted to be loved by a wild cat.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“Whenever the circulation of such a paper begins to slacken, the proprietors should, as a matter of course, admonish their Alf to add a little power to the crushing department.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“Love is like any other luxury.  You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“Masses of men will almost feel that a certain amount of injustice ought to be inflicted on their betters, so as to make things even, and will persuade themselves that a criminal should be declared to be innocent, because the crime committed has had a tendency to oppress the rich and pull down the mighty from their seats.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now