I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
Anthony Trollope

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

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

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.
Anthony Trollope

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
Anthony Trollope

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
Anthony Trollope

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

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

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
Anthony Trollope

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Anthony Trollope

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.
Anthony Trollope

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
Anthony Trollope

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
Anthony Trollope

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Anthony Trollope

Life is so unlike theory.
Anthony Trollope

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

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

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
Anthony Trollope

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
Anthony Trollope

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