Anthony Trollope Quotes (84 Quotes)

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

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

Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre. It is a throne because the most exalted one sits there,and a sceptre because the most mighty one wields it.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

What is there that money will not do?

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

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . .

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

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

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

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

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

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.

No virtue could charm him, no vice shock him. He had about him a natural good manner, which seemed to qualify him for the highest circles, and yet he was never out of place in the lowest.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

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

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Life is so unlike theory.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

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

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.

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.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

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

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.

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

Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.

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

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.

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

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

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

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

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.

They say that faint heart never won fair lady and it is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

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

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

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

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.

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.

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.

It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies--who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two--that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.