559 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

We can generally read a man’s purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

Do they sit altogether mostly all the morning?” “I fancy they do.” “I suppose there’s some way of dividing them. They tell me you know all about women. If you want to get one to yourself, how do you manage it?

Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity.

No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names he finds upon the pages. Let an author so tell his tale as to touch his reader’s heart and draw his tears, and he has, so far, done his work well. Truth let there be, – truth of description, truth of character, human truth as to men and women. If there be such truth, I do not know that a novel can be too sensational.

Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

A fellow oughtn’t to let his family property go to pieces.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?

In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us.