Quotes by Anthony Trollope

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
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
– Anthony Trollope
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
– Anthony Trollope
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
– Anthony Trollope
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
– Anthony Trollope
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.
– Anthony Trollope
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
– Anthony Trollope
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
– Anthony Trollope
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
– Anthony Trollope
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
– Anthony Trollope
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
– Anthony Trollope
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
– Anthony Trollope
What is there that money will not do?
– Anthony Trollope
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
– Anthony Trollope
There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
– Anthony Trollope
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
– Anthony Trollope
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
– Anthony Trollope
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.
– Anthony Trollope
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.
– Anthony Trollope
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
– Anthony Trollope
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
– Anthony Trollope
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.
– Anthony Trollope
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
– Anthony Trollope