All Anthony Trollope Quotes
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
Anthony Trollope
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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
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It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
Anthony Trollope
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It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
Anthony Trollope
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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.
Anthony Trollope
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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
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
Anthony Trollope
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Anthony Trollope
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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
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Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
Anthony Trollope
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Anthony Trollope
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Anthony Trollope
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
Anthony Trollope
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