Quotes By Anthony Trollope

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

What is there that money will not do?

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

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.