Anthony Trollope Quotes

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.”

People Thinking Men Inspirational Should Enough Motivational Self Esteem Confidence Integrity Good Enough Body Image Not Good Enough Reckoning

Author:Anthony Trollope

“There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.”

Humans Literature Hours Equal Six Bliss Twelve

Author:Anthony Trollope

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

Easy Wealth Respectable Matrimony

Author:Anthony Trollope

“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”

Art Literature Cutting Royal Short Cuts

Book:Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers

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

Men Important Literature Ill Illness

Book:Marion Fay: Trollope's Works

Source: Marion Fay: Trollope's Works

“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.”

Ifs Littles Light Eye Girl Three Voice Dark Answers Affair Tone Feminine Leap Her Eyes Three Times Masculine Breathless Masculine And Feminine

Book:Orley farm

Source: Orley farm

“I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.”

World Want Insignificant Life And Love Chatter

Author:Anthony Trollope

“The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.”

Writing Habit Critics Editors Severe

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

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

Men Writing Three Literature Hours Produce Ought

Author:Anthony Trollope

“A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.”

World Doe Wanted Behinds Break Masters Horse Admire Necks Farmers Breaking Down Lame Curb Arches Paws Showy

Book:Hunting Sketches: Trollope's Works

Source: Hunting Sketches: Trollope's Works

“Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.”

Firsts Two New York Faults Insulting Traveller Second Place

Book:North America

Source: North America

“I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.”

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.”

Matter Stories Romance Life Is Novel Melancholy

Book:He Knew He was Right

Source: He Knew He was Right

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

House Husband Horse

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”

Ifs May Law Force Water Beats Stones Tasks Labour Drop Of Water Dainty

Author:Anthony Trollope

“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.”

Men Has Beens Feelings Literature Marriage Duty Difficulty Pursuit

Book:The American Senator

Source: The American Senator

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

Ifs Truth Literature Truth Love Barristers

Book:The Bertrams

Source: The Bertrams

“Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.”

Men Coward Tyrants

Book:The Small House at Allington

Source: The Small House at Allington

“My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.”

Men Writing Book Purpose Belief Honest He Man Hardest Book Writing

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.”

Years Lasts Poor Novel Hero Thousand Ten Devil Clouds Titles Indifferent Theatrical

Book:Ayala's Angel

Source: Ayala's Angel

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

Literature Dresses Gentleman Being The Best Best Dressed

Author:Anthony Trollope

“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.”

Knows Men Two Reason Literature Love Is Expression Instinct Sentiments Sentimental Vocal

Book:Tales of All Countries

Source: Tales of All Countries

“It's dogged as does it.”

Doe Perseverance

Author:Anthony Trollope

“There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.”

Kind Facts Seems Courses Rooms Music Instruments Musical Drawing Violent Arise Piano Hotel Employed Exceptional Forlorn

Book:North America

Source: North America

“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.”

Years May Literature Results Power Dying Temptation Resolution Mature

Author:Anthony Trollope

“Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.”

Wine Flavor

Author:Anthony Trollope

“A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.”

Men Believe Important Matter Food Cooking Dinner Indifference Culinary Indifferent

Book:The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister

Source: The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister

“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.”

Men May Literature Morning Ready Tables These Days Breakfast Biographies Demise Morning After

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.”

Giving Use Shows Young Mother Courses Nurse Wet Gifted Bosoms Nursing Mother Nature Heirs Being A Mother

Book:Doctor Thorne. A Novel. 9th Ed

Source: Doctor Thorne. A Novel. 9th Ed

“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.”

World Should Writing Hours Four Written Letters Twenties Angry Letter Writing

Book:The Bertrams: A Novel

Source: The Bertrams: A Novel

“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.”

Done Night Literature Achievement All Night Catching Salmon

Book:Marion Fay

Source: Marion Fay

“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.”

World Should Writing Littles Seems Nature Sin Spring Satire Satirist Caustic

Book:An Autobiography: and Other Writings

Source: An Autobiography: and Other Writings

“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.”

Ifs Faces Known Habit Punishment Flogging

Author: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.”

Ifs Men Hard Can Do Filled Luxury Rescue Idleness Cradle Slough

Book:Ayala's Angel

Source: Ayala's Angel

“I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.”

Men World Want Done Enough Action Hate Doubt Humility Judging Complaining Gods Will Declaration Envious Manliness Spiteful Success Of Others

Author:Anthony Trollope

“Easy reading requires hard writing.”

Writing Hard Reading Easy

Book:Kept in the Dark: Trollope's Works

Source: Kept in the Dark: Trollope's Works

“If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.”

Ifs Two Week Seven Cooks Soup

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.”

Thinking Inspirational Doe

Author:Anthony Trollope

“After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.”

Next Fear Best Things Grudge

Author:Anthony Trollope

“Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.”

Democrat Infidel

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.”

World Giving This World Letters Pleasant

Book:The Bertrams: A Novel

Source: The Bertrams: A Novel

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

Thinking Men Literature Human Nature Vanity

Author:Anthony Trollope

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

Literature Screws Peg

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.”

Literature Bits Ashamed

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.”

Has Beens Wanted Politician Faults

Author: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.”

Men World Believe Two Real Done Shows Together Committees Real Work

Book:The Claverings: Trollope's Works

Source: The Claverings: Trollope's Works

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

Men Self Done Literature Five Fit Sixty Evident

Book:The Fixed Period

Source: The Fixed Period

“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.”