Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollopewas one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Among his best-loved works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 April 1815
men succeed lasts
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
ideas doubt description
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
mistake men winning
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
men eight mad
I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so.
thinking solitude delight
It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking
moving taken hands
A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right is doing; it should be taken without a thought, without a look, without a move of the facial muscles; the true physician should hardly be aware that the last friendly grasp of the hand has been made more precious by the touch of gold
writing care ends
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.
change men thinking
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
taken poison should
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
men listening hard
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
life-and-love want world
I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world
horse men may
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
inspirational thinking doe
It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.
new-york cities american-cities
No other American city is so intensely American as New York.