Quotes 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.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

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.

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.

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.

Life is so unlike theory.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

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

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

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

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

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

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