Anthony Trollope Quotes

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

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

You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached himself this sermon, declared to himself that they who attempted more than this flew too high in the clouds to be of service to men an women upon the earth

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 very much at your own reckoning.

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? What sister could do so?

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in Parliament used to be something when I was young, but it won't make a make a gentleman now-a-days. It seems to me that none but brewers, and tallow-chandlers, and lawyers go into Parliament now.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.