Top 66 Quotes by Anthony Trollope

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.

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

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.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

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.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

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.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

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