Quotes By Anthony Trollope

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

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

What is there that money will not do?

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.

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.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.