Anthony Trollope Quotes about Literature

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

What is there that money will not do?

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

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

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

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.

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

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Life is so unlike theory.

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

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

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

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.