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Anthony Trollope

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 his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
— Anthony Trollope god
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
— Anthony Trollope love
They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
— Anthony Trollope best
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 life
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.
— Anthony Trollope change
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
— Anthony Trollope man
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
— Anthony Trollope love
Dont let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
— Anthony Trollope love
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
— Anthony Trollope love
Never think that youre not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
— Anthony Trollope people
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
— Anthony Trollope value
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
— Anthony Trollope self
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
— Anthony Trollope man
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
— Anthony Trollope love
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
— Anthony Trollope poverty
Since womans rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
— Anthony Trollope man
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
— Anthony Trollope reading
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 nature
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.
— Anthony Trollope life
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.
— Anthony Trollope work
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
— Anthony Trollope work
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
— Anthony Trollope wealth
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
— Anthony Trollope art
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
— Anthony Trollope writing
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.
— Anthony Trollope hope
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.
— Anthony Trollope writing
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
— Anthony Trollope man
What is there that money will not do?
— Anthony Trollope money
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
— Anthony Trollope man
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
— Anthony Trollope money
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
— Anthony Trollope men
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.
— Anthony Trollope strong
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
— Anthony Trollope art
I aint a bit ashamed of anything.
— Anthony Trollope shame
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 havent got that.
— Anthony Trollope romance
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.
— Anthony Trollope love
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lovers mind if she knew the whole of it.
— Anthony Trollope love
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
— Anthony Trollope home
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
— Anthony Trollope men
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
— Anthony Trollope honesty
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 man
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
— Anthony Trollope you
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
— Anthony Trollope want
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a mans interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
— Anthony Trollope war
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that cant fly away.
— Anthony Trollope you
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.
— Anthony Trollope art
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.
— Anthony Trollope man
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.
— Anthony Trollope work
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
— Anthony Trollope self
It is the test of a novel writers art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
— Anthony Trollope art
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 wisdom
Life is so unlike theory.
— Anthony Trollope life

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