Anthony Trollope Quotes

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

I always maintained I'm a good simple boy from Punjab. Some chose not to believe me. Now the same people are happy to work with me.

When you look a certain way, or you have a certain presence, people take someone else's word over yours.

I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.

I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side

By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.