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
reading writing easy
Easy reading requires hard writing,
writing world four
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
nature spring writing
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.
writing editors habit
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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.
education reading writing
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
writing men three
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
overcoming-evil excellence looks
The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
men knows
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
girl honesty men
Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
husband men perfect
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
towers quarters century
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.
girl husband lying
The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
hemisphere sweetheart my-sweetheart
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.