The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil? — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“What follows as a natural consequence? Men reconcile themselves to swindling. Though they themselves mean to be honest, dishonesty of itself is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth.… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“And then she began to think about Lady Glencora herself. What a strange, weird nature she was,—with her round blue eyes and… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“We are not content in looking to our newspapers for all the information that earth and human intellect can afford; but we… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
