Top 33 Anthony Trollope Quotes

A woman‘s life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man‘s life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

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.

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.

What is there that money will not do?

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.

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.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

Never think that you’re not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

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.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

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

Since woman’s rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

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.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

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.

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.

A fellow oughtn’t to let his family property go to pieces.

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.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

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

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.

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.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

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

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

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.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.