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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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

Anthony Trollope

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.

Anthony Trollope

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

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

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

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.

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

Anthony Trollope

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

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

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

Anthony Trollope

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

Anthony Trollope

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

Anthony Trollope

Author Bio

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