The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
8.71 Lionel Trilling 1905-75
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
In ‘Esquire’ September 1962.
8.72 Tommy Trinder 1909-89
Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here.
Referring to American troops in Britain during World War II and attributed to Trinder
8.73 Anthony Trollope 1815-82
He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of
flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
‘Autobiography’ (1883) ch. 1
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from
England her authors.
‘Autobiography’ (1883) ch. 6
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
‘Autobiography’ (1883) ch. 15
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
‘Autobiography’ (1883) ch. 19.
I think that Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium, is a perfect gentleman. If he be not, then I
am unable to describe a gentleman.
‘Autobiography’ (1883) ch. 20
She was rich in apparel, but not bedizened with finery...she well knew the great architectural
secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.
Describing Mrs Stanhope in ‘Barchester Towers’ (1857) ch. 9
‘Unhand it, sir!’ said Mrs Proudie. From what scrap of dramatic poetry she had extracted the
word cannot be said; but it must have rested on her memory, and now seemed opportunely
dignified for the occasion.
‘Barchester Towers’ (1857) ch. 11
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
‘The Bertrams’ (1859) ch. 27
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
‘The Bertrams’ (1859) ch. 27
How I did respect you when you dared to speak the truth to me! Men don’t know women, or
they would be harder to them.
‘The Claverings’ (1867) ch. 15
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
‘Doctor Thorne’ (1858) ch. 16