Comfort Quote by Anthony Trollope

“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

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

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

— Anthony Trollope

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

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

— Anthony Trollope

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

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

“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.”

— Anthony Trollope

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

— Anthony Trollope

“(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

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

— Anthony Trollope

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

— Anthony Trollope