Anthony Trollope Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Love, Happiness, Literature

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Barchester Towers”, p.347, Anthony Trollope

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Art, Cutting, Literature

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Barchester Towers”, p.238, Anthony Trollope

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Writing, Men, Three

  'Autobiography' (1883) ch. 15

• 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.

  Anthony Trollope

  Land, Feelings, Literature

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Last Chronicle of Barset”, p.517, Anthony Trollope

• And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

  Anthony Trollope

  Gentleman, Literature, Noblemen

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Doctor Wortle's School”, p.183, Booklassic

• When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

  Anthony Trollope

  Strong, Wall, Ivy

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Barchester Towers: Trollope's Works”, p.425, 谷月社

• 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.

  Anthony Trollope

  Night, Achievement, Salmon

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Marion Fay”, p.319, Anthony Trollope

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Love, Luxury, Literature

  'The Way We Live Now' (1875) ch. 84

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Gentleman, Dresses, Literature

  1879 Thackeray, ch.9.

• 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.

  Anthony Trollope

  Power, Years, Temptation

  'The Small House at Allington' (1864) ch. 14

• 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.

  Anthony Trollope

  Morning, Men, Demise

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.930, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

• 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.

  Anthony Trollope

  Love Is, Men, Two

  Anthony Trollope (1867). “Tales of All Countries”, p.86

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature, Pieces, Fellows

  Anthony Trollope (1875). “The Way We Live Now”, p.37

• Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

  Anthony Trollope

  Love, Book, Perfect

• It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

  Anthony Trollope

  Ambition, Parent, Progress

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel”, p.484, Simon and Schuster

• Life is so unlike theory.

  Anthony Trollope

  Funny, Life, Literature

• 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.

  Anthony Trollope

  Real, Rocks, Romance

  Anthony Trollope (1999). “Can You Forgive Her?”, Oxford University Press, USA

• It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

  Anthony Trollope

  Art, Writing, Snakes

  Anthony Trollope (1871). “Ralph the heir. With illustr. by F.A. Fraser”, p.425

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Twelve, Literature, Six

  Orley Farm ch. 49 (1862)

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature, Birth, Lows

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.1049, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Ambition, Literature, Castles

  Anthony Trollope (2009). “The Bertrams: Easyread Large Edition”, p.282, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Mind, Literature

  1869 Of Trevelyan's paranoia about his wife's fidelity. He Knew He Was Right, ch.38.

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature, May, Advertising

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister”, p.530, Booklassic

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Important, Literature

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Marion Fay: Trollope's Works”, p.391, 谷月社

• What is there that money will not do?

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Way We Live Now”, p.198, Booklassic

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin