Quotes from Anthony Trollope

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

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

Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.

The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.

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

He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

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

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.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Always remember… that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.

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.

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

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

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

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.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

What is there that money will not do?

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. I have never walked there with a companion without talking of it.

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.

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.

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

One of her instructors in fashion had given her to understand that curls were not the thing. "They'll always pass muster," Miss Dunstable had replied, "when they are done up with bank notes."

It had at this time become my custom… to write with my watch before me, and to require from myself 250 words every quarter of an hour. I have found that the 250 words have been forthcoming as regularly as my watch went.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.