More - Anthony Trollope Quotes

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Anthony Trollope

 Doubt English Author

She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration.

Anthony Trollope

 

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

 

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

Anthony Trollope

 English Author Love

She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . .

Anthony Trollope

 

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

 English Author

She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

Anthony Trollope

 

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

 English Author

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

Anthony Trollope

 

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

Anthony Trollope

 Biography English Author