Anthony Trollope Quotes

As a general rule, it is highly desirable that ladies should keep their temper: a woman when she sto...

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing ...

Wars about trifles are always bitter, especially among neighbours. When the differences are great, a...

A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has inv...

The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do ...

It was a beautiful summer afternoon, at that delicious period of the year when summer has just burst...

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. ...

I do not know that Lady Glencora's heart was made of that stern stuff which refuses to change its im...

Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again,...

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? Wha...

They had not been long there before Lord Dumbello did group himself. 'Fine day,' he said, coming up ...

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are ...

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot ...

You are quite wrong about him," Felix had said. "He has not been atan English school, or English uni...

I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to kn...

There is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind. Who is there that h...

You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those aroun...

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they...

The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, ...

People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in...

But the character of a man is not to be judged from the pictures which he may draw or from the antic...

I hate the twaddle talk of love, whether it's about myself or about any one else. It makes me feel a...

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What m...

The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you...

And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think th...

There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never...

It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked ...

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be s...

Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so ...

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individua...

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor...

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which...

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

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

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for...

In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes f...

Idle Jeffrey, when asking his cousin for money: "I fear I have not a mercenary tendency." The Chance...

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come ...

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

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

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countri...

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some rem...

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often no...