559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

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.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

It is no good any longer to have any opinion upon anything.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.