Quotes from Anthony Trollope

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

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.

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

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

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

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

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

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

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

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

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.