Anthony Trollope Quotes

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

A liar has many points to his favour, — but he has this against him, that unless he devote more time to the management of his lies than life will generally allow, he cannot make them tally.

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

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

The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.

Marvellous 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.

Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.

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.

You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.

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

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room.

She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.

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.

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