Anthony Trollope Quotes
Most popular Anthony Trollope Quotes
Power corrupts.
Do not fire too much over the heads of your readers.
The principal duty which a parent owes a child is to make him happy.
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceals his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell.
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.
Marvellous 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.
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart—and always to plead it successfully.
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
