Anthony Trollope quotes
Born
24 April 1815 London, England.
Died
6 December 1882.
Occupation
Novelist.
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist, postal administrator and politician Trollope is best known for his series of novels set in the fictional counties of Barsetshire and West Barsetshire, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. These novels, which include The Warden (1855) and Barchester Towers (1857), are considered masterpieces of Victorian literature.
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
– Anthony Trollope
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
– Anthony Trollope
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
– Anthony Trollope
A fellow oughtn’t to let his family property go to pieces.
– Anthony Trollope
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
– Anthony Trollope
I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
– Anthony Trollope
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
– Anthony Trollope
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
– Anthony Trollope
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
– Anthony Trollope
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
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
– Anthony Trollope
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
– Anthony Trollope
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
– 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
Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
– Anthony Trollope
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
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
– Anthony Trollope
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
– Anthony Trollope
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
– Anthony Trollope
Life is so unlike theory.
– Anthony Trollope