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
daily-tasks dainty beats
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
reading support-you perfect
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
life confidence self-esteem
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.
wisdom drinking age
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
being-thankful use way
The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
country dog morning
Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend Quarter Sessions, and be able to declare morning and evening with a clear conscience that the country was going to the dogs? Such was the mental working of many a Conservative who supported Mr. Daubeny on this occasion.
country hands gentleman
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
marriage beautiful addresses
But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.
giving world letters
A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
success running mean
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
honesty thinking rogues
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
gentleman literature noblemen
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
funny-love food cooking
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
love happiness literature
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.