559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

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.

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.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

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

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

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