Anthony Trollope Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope Famous Quotes & Sayings
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? ... Was ever anything so civil?
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
She was dark, thin, healthy, good-looking, clever, ambitious, rich, unsatisfied, perhaps unscrupulous - but not without a conscience.
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
the public is defrauded when it is purposely misled. Poor public! how often is it misled! against what a world of fraud has it to contend!
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary.
Book love ... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
It was Mr. Gotobed, who had just returned from a visit which he had made, the circumstances of which must be narrated in the next chapter. The
A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
Mrs Grantly after her father's death. This matter, therefore, had been taken out of the warden's hands
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.
That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.
And so he walked on from day to day studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.
I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.
Such was the beauty of the landscape, that a lover of scenery would be tempted thus to lose himself.
All is fair in love and war; and if this is not love, it was the usual thing that stands as a counterpart for it.
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
If one wants to keep one's self straight, one has to work hard at it, one way or the other. I suppose it all comes from the fall of Adam.
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
The writer of stories must please, or he will be nothing. And he must teach whether he wish to teach or no. How
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
In life I've rung all changes through,
Run every pleasure down,
'Midst each excess of folly too,
And lived with half the town.
Run every pleasure down,
'Midst each excess of folly too,
And lived with half the town.
There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.
Lady Linlithgow, too, though very strong, was old. She was slow, or perhaps it might more properly be said she was stately in her movements.
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
As he cared no longer for the light that lies in a lady's eye, there was not much left to him in the world but cards and racing.
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.