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
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
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
land feelings literature
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
night achievement done
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
daily-tasks dainty beats
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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.
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.
funny-love food cooking
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.