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
love book perfect
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
book hero tears
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
book writing men
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
father book blessed
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.
book writing men
My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
book coffee earth
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?
inspirational book reading
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
country book doctors
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.
book needs chiefs
Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.
caustic nature rather satire satirist seem sins springs writes
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.
crow elsewhere louder understood
She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . .
construct decorating great knew secret
She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration.
gift knew rich
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony; that is, of course, provided that the aspirant declines the slow course of honest work.