Anthony Trollope Quotes

Getting up and criticizing the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

Every person is observant of the flaws of others and blind to his own flaws.

Mudslinging – In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

When we make mistakes ourselves we hate to have other people notice them, but when the boot is on the other foot, we leave nothing unnoticed. The youngest child acts this way, and the greatest statesmen.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.