Quotes from Anthony Trollope

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

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

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

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

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

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.

Life is so unlike theory.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

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.

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

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

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

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

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.

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

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

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