Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Anthony Trollope (English Novelist)

Anthony Trollope (1815–82) was an English novelist. He was the most prolific of the great Victorian novelists and wrote 47 novels and 42 short stories. Trollope’s other great claim to fame was his introduction of postal pillar-boxes in the 1850s; he also worked for the General Post Office 1834–67.

Many of Trollope’s novels originated from daydreams that he had as a child. He came to eminence in the 1860s with the serializations he published in magazines such as the Cornhill Magazine. He sealed his reputation as a remarkable writer with his fourth novel, The Warden (1855,) the first of the six Barsetshire novels, which also include Barchester Towers (1857) and The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867.) Set in a fictional country called Barsetshire, these novels portray a stable rural society of recurring curates and landed gentry.

Trollope also published the political novel sequence, the Palliser novels, which included Can You Forgive Her? (1865) and The Way We Live Now (1875;) the latter was a scathing 100-chapter satire of English greed.

Trollope established the novel sequence in English fiction. This literary form, known by the metaphor roman-fleuve, comprises the leisurely description of the lives of closely related middle-class Victorians; Honoré de Balzac used this literary form previously and separately.

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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Realization, Awareness, Opinion, Acceptance, Self Confidence, Confidence, Assurance, Character

They say that the pith of a lady’s letter is in the postscript.
—Anthony Trollope

This habit of reading … is your pass to the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for his creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Books, Reading

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Enjoyment, Habit, Reading

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Punishment

A man cannot rid himself of a prejudice because he knows or believes it to be a prejudice.
—Anthony Trollope

Prosperity is always becoming more prosperous.
—Anthony Trollope

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards—When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Religion

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
—Anthony Trollope

The comic almanacs give us dreadful pictures of January and February; but, in truth, the months which should be made to look gloomy in England are March and April. Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
—Anthony Trollope

How often in the various amusements of the world is one tempted to pause a moment and ask oneself whether one really likes it!
—Anthony Trollope

It is not the girl that the man loves, but the image which imagination has built up for him to fill the outside covering which has pleased his senses.
—Anthony Trollope

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Fashion, Dress

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.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Cynicism

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Charm

When we buckle on our armour in any cause, we are apt to go on buckling it, let the cause become as weak as it may.
—Anthony Trollope

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Vanity

Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.
—Anthony Trollope

There is nothing that a woman will not forgive a man, when he is weaker than she is herself.
—Anthony Trollope

Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
—Anthony Trollope

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Belief

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.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Retirement, Aging

Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Appetite

It’s dogged as does it.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Perseverance

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Success, Success & Failure

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
—Anthony Trollope
Topics: Advertising

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