Anthony Trollope Quotes

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
Anthony Trollope

Life, Husband, Wife

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

Life, Evening, Parent

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
Anthony Trollope

Girl, Mind, Doubt

Marvelous 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.
Anthony Trollope

Good, Power, Person

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
Anthony Trollope

Gentleman, Though

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
Anthony Trollope

Feeling, Away, Stand

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
Anthony Trollope

Life, Happiness, Respect

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

Love, God, Greatest

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Anthony Trollope

Political, Honesty, Become

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
Anthony Trollope

Good, Enough, Reckoning

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

Love, Happiness, End

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Anthony Trollope

Mind, Until, Driven

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
Anthony Trollope

Good, Real, Call

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.
Anthony Trollope

Love, Woman, Two

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
Anthony Trollope

Government, Wanted, Knew

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
Anthony Trollope

Greatest, Honesty, Talk

Life is so unlike theory.
Anthony Trollope

Life, Theory, Unlike

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
Anthony Trollope

Love, Long, Last

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

Reading, Enjoyment, Habit

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
Anthony Trollope

Family, Property, Fellow

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
Anthony Trollope

Husband, House, Horse

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
Anthony Trollope

Love, Marriage, Feeling

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
Anthony Trollope

Love, Truth, Nothing

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
Anthony Trollope

God, Hero, Poor

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
Anthony Trollope

Down, Screw, Peg

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: April 24, 1815

Died: December 6, 1882

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