A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

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 Quote

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

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.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

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

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 Quote

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

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.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

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

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

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 Quote

Life is so unlike theory.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

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.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

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

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

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

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

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 Quote

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

What is there that money will not do?
- Anthony Trollope Quote

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
- Anthony Trollope Quote

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 Quote

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
- Anthony Trollope Quote