Words matter. These are the best Anthony Trollope Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
What is there that money will not do?
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
Since woman’s rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
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.
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.
A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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.
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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.
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.
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
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.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Book love… is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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 doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
A fellow oughtn’t to let his family property go to pieces.
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.
Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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.
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
