Anthony Trollope Quotes

She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.

I always thought there was very little wit wanted to make a fortune in the City.

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

Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.

He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat-of-nine-tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim.

If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart. Even if I were young and good-looking, I doubt whether I could please myself. As it is I am likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.

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

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

It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies — who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two — that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.

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.

Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel?

There was very much in the whole affair of which he would not be proud as he led his bride to the altar; — but a man does not expect to get four thousand pounds a year for nothing.

And then she began to think about Lady Glencora herself. What a strange, weird nature she was, — with her round blue eyes and wavy hair, looking sometimes like a child and sometimes almost like an old woman! And how she talked! What things she said, and what terrible forebodings she uttered of stranger things that she meant to say!