Anthony Trollope quotes
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
Marvelous 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.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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.
They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.