He Knew He Was Right Quotes

“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.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel?”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“Wine is a dangerous thing, and should not be made the exponent of truth, let the truth be good as it may; but it has the merit of forcing a man to show his true colors.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“Familiarity does breed contempt;—doesn’t it?”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“Courtesty and cordiality are not only not the same, but they are incompatible. Why so? Courtesy is an effort, and cordiality is free.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart. Even if I were young and good-looking, I doubt whether I could please myself. As it is I am likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“idleness is the root of all evil.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“The heroes of life are so much better than the heroes of romance,” said Caroline.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“Blessed are the peace-makers,’ miss, ‘for they shall be called the children of God.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“My dear, the least said the soonest mended,” said Mrs. French.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“It is easier,’” said Mr. Outhouse solemnly, “‘for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“There is so much in a turn of the eye and in the tone given to a word when such things have to be said,—so much more of importance than in the words themselves.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“But 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.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“They are most happy who have no story to tell.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“There is a general understanding that the wooden-legged men in country parishes should be employed as postmen, owing to the great steadiness of demeanour which a wooden leg is generally found to produce.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right (The Classic Unabridged Edition): A Psychological Novel

“Mamma does make such delicious blunders.” “Sophie, my dear, that is not a proper way of speaking.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel?” said Carry.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right (The Classic Unabridged Edition): A Psychological Novel

“They say women are to vote, and become doctors, and if so, there’s no knowing what devil’s tricks they mayn’t do.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right (The Classic Unabridged Edition): A Psychological Novel

“A gentleman over fifty, popular in London, with a seat in Parliament, fond of good dinners, and possessed of everything which the world has to give, could hardly have wished to run away with his neighbour’s wife,”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right (The Classic Unabridged Edition): A Psychological Novel

“a young man without an income cannot be accepted as a fitting suitor for a gentleman’s daughter.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“A man who is a gentleman in his cups may be trusted to be a gentleman at all times.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“The hotel-keeper did not allow such a light to remain long hidden under a bushel, and it was soon spread far and wide that the Honourable Charles Glascock and his suite were again in the beautiful city. And”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right