Anthony Trollope Quotes

Life is so unlike theory... view

By: Anthony Trollope

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

By: Anthony Trollope

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable... view

By: Anthony Trollope

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent... view

By: Anthony Trollope

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself... view

By: Anthony Trollope

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning... view

By: Anthony Trollope

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth... view

By: Anthony Trollope

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere... view

By: Anthony Trollope

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives... view

By: Anthony Trollope

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it... view

By: Anthony Trollope

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy.. view

By: Anthony Trollope

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution... view

By: Anthony Trollope

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass.. view

By: Anthony Trollope

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do... view

By: Anthony Trollope

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men... view

By: Anthony Trollope

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... view

By: Anthony Trollope

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement... view

By: Anthony Trollope

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away... view

By: Anthony Trollope

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement... view

By: Anthony Trollope

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks... view

By: Anthony Trollope

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder... view

By: Anthony Trollope

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written... view

By: Anthony Trollope

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind... view

By: Anthony Trollope

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes... view

By: Anthony Trollope

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily... view

By: Anthony Trollope

What is there that money will not do?.. view

By: Anthony Trollope

There is no royal road to learning.. view

By: Anthony Trollope

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony... view

By: Anthony Trollope

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it... view

By: Anthony Trollope

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle... view

By: Anthony Trollope

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another... view

By: Anthony Trollope

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

By: Anthony Trollope

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness... view

By: Anthony Trollope

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything... view

By: Anthony Trollope

When men think much, they can rarely decide... view

By: Anthony Trollope

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper... view

By: Anthony Trollope

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise... view

By: Anthony Trollope

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour... view

By: Anthony Trollope

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything... view

By: Anthony Trollope

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write... view

By: Anthony Trollope

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel... view

By: Anthony Trollope

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

By: Anthony Trollope