Anthony Trollope

“A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Giving #World #Letters

“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Art #Cutting #Royal

“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

#Inspirational #Confidence #Men

“Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend Quarter Sessions, and be able to declare morning and evening with a clear conscience that the country was going to the dogs? Such was the mental working of many a Conservative who supported Mr. Daubeny on this occasion.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Country #Dog #Morning

“But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Secret

“The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Being Thankful #Use #Way

“After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Fear #Next #Grudge

“It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Inspirational #Thinking #Doe

“I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Life And Love #World #Want

“Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Divine #Humans

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Coffee #Book #Earth

“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Funny Love #Doe #Culinary

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Love #Happiness #Literature

“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Inspirational #Book #Reading

“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

#Hurt #Character #Thinking

“When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Strong #Wall #Ivy

“A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Horse #Doe #Lame

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Tasks #Beats #Labour

“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.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Night #Achievement #Salmon

“Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Winter #Men #May

“And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Gentleman #Literature #Noblemen

“I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Honesty #Thinking #Rogues

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Reading #Men #Thinking

“As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Happiness #This Life #Relinquishing

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

#Gentleman #Dresses #Being The Best

“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Love #Luxury #Literature

“This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Reading #Long #Perfect

“Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Writing #Men #Three

“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Education #Reading #Writing

“It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.”
-- Anthony Trollope

#Land #Feelings #Literature