Anthony Trollope quotes

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
- Anthony Trollope

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
- Anthony Trollope

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?
- Anthony Trollope

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
- Anthony Trollope

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.
- Anthony Trollope

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

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.
- Anthony Trollope

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

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
- Anthony Trollope

And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.
- Anthony Trollope

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

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

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

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
- Anthony Trollope

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.
- Anthony Trollope

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
- Anthony Trollope

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
- Anthony Trollope

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

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
- Anthony Trollope

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
- Anthony Trollope

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

The end of a novel, like the end of children’s dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum.
- Anthony Trollope

Those who depart must have earned such sorrow before it can be really felt.
- Anthony Trollope

A woman's weapon is her tongue.
- Anthony Trollope