Top 44 Anthony Trollope Quotes

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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which the

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

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Anthony Trollope
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.
Anthony Trollope
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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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.
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.
Anthony Trollope
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
Anthony Trollope
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.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
Anthony Trollope
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.
Anthony Trollope
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.
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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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