Anthony Trollope Quotes (84 Quotes)

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

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

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

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.

To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged is a man's delight to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

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.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

The bishop did not whistle we believe that they lose the power of doing so on being consecrated.

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.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

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

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

You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

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

The tenth Muse, who now governs the periodical press.

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.

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.

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

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

She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

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

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

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