top of page
"No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Man quotes

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
Explore more quotes by Anthony Trollope

"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."

"As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour."

"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."

"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."

"It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually."
bottom of page