Anthony Trollope quotes

Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant, renowned for his insightful chronicles of Victorian society. His most famous works include the 'Chronicles of Barsetshire' series, which vividly depicts English rural life and politics. He influenced generations of writers with his prolific output and realistic characters. Here are 178 of his quotes:

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. View quote
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. View quote
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine. View quote
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it. View quote
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. View quote
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. View quote
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. View quote
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. (Anthony Trollope)
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. View quote
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something. View quote
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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. View quote
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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. View quote
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. View quote
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. View quote
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Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. (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. View quote
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Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable. View quote
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That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation. View quote
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason. View quote
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Anthony Trollope

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Occupation: English Novelist
Born: April 24, 1815
Died: December 6, 1882
Quotes count: 178
Wikipedia: Anthony Trollope

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