Quotes by : Anthony Trollope

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so,....

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? What....

It was a beautiful summer afternoon, at that delicious period of the year when summer has just burst....

There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never....

People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in....

(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested....

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures....

The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you....