110+ Anthony Trollope Quotes On Marriage, Education And Order

Anthony Trollope was an English author who wrote during the Victorian era. He wrote numerous novels, as well as stories and essays. His most well-known works include The Warden, Barchester Towers, and The Way We Live Now. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Anthony Trollope on life, love, marriage.

Top 10 Anthony Trollope Quotes

1. An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
5. What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?
6. There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
7. 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.
8. Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
9. Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
10. There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Anthony Trollope Short Quotes

• One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
• No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
• A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
• I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
• The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
• I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
• Beware of creating tedium!
• The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
• There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
• Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

Anthony Trollope Quotes About Life

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. — Anthony Trollope

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning — Anthony Trollope

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world. — Anthony Trollope

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. — Anthony Trollope

In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue. — Anthony Trollope

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

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration. — Anthony Trollope

There is such a difference between life and theory. — Anthony Trollope

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places. — Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. — Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quotes About Love

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine. — Anthony Trollope

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

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer. — Anthony Trollope

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable. — Anthony Trollope

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness. — Anthony Trollope

It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it. — Anthony Trollope

If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love. — Anthony Trollope

Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself. — Anthony Trollope

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage. — Anthony Trollope

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly. — Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quotes About Marriage

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? — Anthony Trollope

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women. — 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. — Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quotes About Satire

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

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

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed. — Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quotes About World

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

Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest. — 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. — 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

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world. — Anthony Trollope

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give. — Anthony Trollope

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning. — Anthony Trollope

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise. — Anthony Trollope

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

Anthony Trollope Quotes About Reading

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

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. — Anthony Trollope

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described. — Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century. — Anthony Trollope

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us. — Anthony Trollope

Easy reading requires hard writing. — Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quotes About Nature

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. — Anthony Trollope

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so. — Anthony Trollope

The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature. — Anthony Trollope

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally. — Anthony Trollope

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural. — Anthony Trollope

It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change. — Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — 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

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

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself. — 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

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man. — Anthony Trollope

The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you. — Anthony Trollope

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

It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure. — Anthony Trollope

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing. — Anthony Trollope

Above all else, never think you're not good enough. — Anthony Trollope

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

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician. — Anthony Trollope

When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction. — Anthony Trollope

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. — Anthony Trollope

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

No other American city is so intensely American as New York. — Anthony Trollope

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere. — Anthony Trollope

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

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

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. — Anthony Trollope

Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend Quarter Sessions, and be able to declare morning and evening with a clear conscience that the country was going to the dogs? Such was the mental working of many a Conservative who supported Mr. Daubeny on this occasion. — Anthony Trollope

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence. — 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

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. — Anthony Trollope

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal. — Anthony Trollope

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

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

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens. — Anthony Trollope

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

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so. — Anthony Trollope

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people. — Anthony Trollope

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high. — Anthony Trollope

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow. — Anthony Trollope

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

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

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

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work. — Anthony Trollope

Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort. — Anthony Trollope

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it. — Anthony Trollope

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

A husband is very much like a house or a horse. — Anthony Trollope

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

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

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. — Anthony Trollope

I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist. — Anthony Trollope

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted. — Anthony Trollope

The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest. — Anthony Trollope

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge. — Anthony Trollope

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

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. — Anthony Trollope

Life is so unlike theory. — Anthony Trollope

Never mingle love and business. — Anthony Trollope

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear — Anthony Trollope

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston. — Anthony Trollope

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. — Anthony Trollope

Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over. — Anthony Trollope

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

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. — Anthony Trollope

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

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !. — Anthony Trollope

I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear. — Anthony Trollope

I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views. — Anthony Trollope

Life Lessons by Anthony Trollope

1. Anthony Trollope teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be. He also emphasizes the importance of hard work and dedication in order to achieve success. Lastly, he encourages us to be kind and generous to those around us, as this will lead to a more fulfilling life.