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
ambition parent progress
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
funny life literature
Life is so unlike theory.
men mind emergencies
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
government wanted
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
long passionate lasts
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
life success unfortunate
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
literature may advertising
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
literature poverty misery
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
men age youth
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
country sleep looks
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.
men way fit
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
men tyrants coward
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
hero years clouds
But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
love-is men expression
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.