Anthony Trollope Quotes

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.

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

One of her instructors in fashion had given her to understand that curls were not the thing. "They'll always pass muster," Miss Dunstable had replied, "when they are done up with bank notes."

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

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

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

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

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to sermons.

In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways — Who was to be the new Bishop?

The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.

He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.

The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _____; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that something personal was intended; and as this tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the town in question, we are anxious that no personality may be suspected.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.