Quotes from Anthony Trollope

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

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

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

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.

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

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

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

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

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

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

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.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

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.

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

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.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

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.