Anthony Trollope quotes

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

Anthony Trollope

There is no royal road to learning, no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy, it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

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.

Anthony Trollope

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

A small daily task if it really be daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

Anthony Trollope

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Anthony Trollope

Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait.
They straggle with their limbs, and are shy.
Words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.

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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

Anthony Trollope

He must have known me if he had 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.

Anthony Trollope

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

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.

Anthony Trollope

Book love is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Anthony Trollope

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

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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.

Anthony Trollope

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

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.

Anthony Trollope

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

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.

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

Anthony Trollope

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

Anthony Trollope

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

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.

Anthony Trollope

She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration.

Anthony Trollope

Life is so unlike theory.

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope