Quotes by Anthony Trollope

About Anthony Trollope:

Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters.
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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

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

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

Anthony Trollope

What is there that money will not do?

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

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

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

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

Anthony Trollope

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

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

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

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.

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Anthony Trollope

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

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

Anthony Trollope

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Anthony Trollope

Author Bio

  • NameAnthony Trollope
  • DescriptionEnglish novelists of the Victorian era
  • BornApril 24, 1815
  • DiedDecember 6, 1882
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Autobiographer; Novelist