Anthony Trollope Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

“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.”

“As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.”

“I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.”

“I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.”

“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”

“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

“It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.”

“It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.”