Quotes By Anthony Trollope

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.

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

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.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

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

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.

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.

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

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

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

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

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.