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

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
Anthony Trollope

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

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Anthony Trollope

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
Anthony Trollope

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

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

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Anthony Trollope

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
Anthony Trollope

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

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
Anthony Trollope

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

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

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Anthony Trollope

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
Anthony Trollope

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
Anthony Trollope

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
Anthony Trollope

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Anthony Trollope

What is there that money will not do?
Anthony Trollope