Anthony Trollope Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.”

“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”

“I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.”

“I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.”

“I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.”

“It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.”

“Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.”

“I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.”

“It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.”

“It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.”