Quotes By Anthony Trollope

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

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.

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

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

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

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.