Anthony Trollope Quotes

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

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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

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I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.

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.

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

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

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Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

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

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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

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Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.

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Perhaps there is nothing so generally remarkable in the conduct of young ladies in the phase of life of which we are now speaking as the facility, — it may almost be said audacity, — with which they do make up their minds.

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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.

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

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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."

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Oh happy Portlanders, if they only knew their own good fortune! They get up early, and go to bed early. The women are comely and sturdy, able to take care of themselves without any fal-lal of chivalry; and the men are sedate, obliging, and industrious.

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No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.

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But Mr. Slide did not know that he was lying, and did not know that he was malicious. The weapon which he used was one to which his hand was accustomed, and he had been lead by practice to believe that the use of such weapons by one in his position was not only fair, but also beneficial to the public.

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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 every one else.

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The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.

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To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!

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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.

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The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

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He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, — and therefore he'll be a success.

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He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

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To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

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