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Top 400 Anthony Trollope Quotes (2026 Update)
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Anthony Trollope Quote: “I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.”

201. “I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “There is the review intended to sell a book, – which comes out immediately after the appearance of the book, or sometimes before it; the review which gives reputation, but does not affect the sale, and which comes a little later; the review which snuffs a book out quietly; the review which is to raise or lower the author a single peg, or two pegs, as the case may be; the review which is suddenly to make an author, and the review which is to crush him.”

202. “There is the review intended to sell a book, – which comes out immediately after the appearance of the book, or sometimes before it; the review which gives reputation, but does not affect the sale, and which comes a little later; the review which snuffs a book out quietly; the review which is to raise or lower the author a single peg, or two pegs, as the case may be; the review which is suddenly to make an author, and the review which is to crush him.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “I know very well that men are friends when they step up and shake hands with each other. It is the same as when women kiss.” “When I see women kiss, I always think that there is deep hatred at the bottom of it.”

203. “I know very well that men are friends when they step up and shake hands with each other. It is the same as when women kiss.” “When I see women kiss, I always think that there is deep hatred at the bottom of it.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “Jacob was not in such a hurry when he wished for Rachel.” “That was all very well for an old patriarch who had seven or eight hundred years to live.” “My dear John, you forget your Bible. Jacob did not live half as long as that.”

204. “Jacob was not in such a hurry when he wished for Rachel.” “That was all very well for an old patriarch who had seven or eight hundred years to live.” “My dear John, you forget your Bible. Jacob did not live half as long as that.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “A woman’s life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man’s life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.”

205. “A woman’s life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man’s life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.”

— Anthony Trollope

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

206. “I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names he finds upon the pages. Let an author so tell his tale as to touch his reader’s heart and draw his tears, and he has, so far, done his work well. Truth let there be, – truth of description, truth of character, human truth as to men and women. If there be such truth, I do not know that a novel can be too sensational.”

207. “No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names he finds upon the pages. Let an author so tell his tale as to touch his reader’s heart and draw his tears, and he has, so far, done his work well. Truth let there be, – truth of description, truth of character, human truth as to men and women. If there be such truth, I do not know that a novel can be too sensational.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “But women can bear anything better than desertion. Cruelty is bad, but neglect is worse than cruelty, and desertion worse even than neglect.”

208. “But women can bear anything better than desertion. Cruelty is bad, but neglect is worse than cruelty, and desertion worse even than neglect.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “In judging of them, he judged leniently; the whole bias of his profession had taught him to think that they were more sinned against than sinning, and that the animosity with which they had been pursued was venomous and unjust; but he had not the less regarded their plight as most miserable.”

209. “In judging of them, he judged leniently; the whole bias of his profession had taught him to think that they were more sinned against than sinning, and that the animosity with which they had been pursued was venomous and unjust; but he had not the less regarded their plight as most miserable.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.”

210. “It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “But are no other portraits necessary? Should we not be taught to see the men and women among whom we really live, – men and women such as we are ourselves, – in order that we should know what are the exact failings which oppress ourselves, and thus learn to hate, and if possible to avoid in life the faults of character which in life are hardly visible, but which in portraiture of life can be made to be so transparent.”

211. “But are no other portraits necessary? Should we not be taught to see the men and women among whom we really live, – men and women such as we are ourselves, – in order that we should know what are the exact failings which oppress ourselves, and thus learn to hate, and if possible to avoid in life the faults of character which in life are hardly visible, but which in portraiture of life can be made to be so transparent.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “Never mingle love and business.”

212. “Never mingle love and business.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “It cannot, however, be said that this Petruchio had as yet tamed his own peculiar shrew. Lucinda was as savage as ever, and would snap and snarl, and almost bite.”

213. “It cannot, however, be said that this Petruchio had as yet tamed his own peculiar shrew. Lucinda was as savage as ever, and would snap and snarl, and almost bite.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.”

214. “For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.”

215. “But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “True love, true friendship, true benevolence, true tenderness, were beautiful to her, – qualities on which she could descant almost with eloquence; and therefore she was always shamming love and friendship and benevolence and tenderness.”

216. “True love, true friendship, true benevolence, true tenderness, were beautiful to her, – qualities on which she could descant almost with eloquence; and therefore she was always shamming love and friendship and benevolence and tenderness.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.”

217. “People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.”

— Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope Quote: “Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.”

218. “Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.”

219. “Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.”

220. “Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.”

221. “When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.”

222. “It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another – some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.”

223. “There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another – some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “A man who lives much at a club is apt to fall into a selfish mode of life. He is taught to think that his own comfort should always be the first object. A man can never be happy unless his first objects are outside himself. Personal self-indulgence begets a sense of meanness which sticks to a man even when he has got beyond all hope of rescue.”

224. “A man who lives much at a club is apt to fall into a selfish mode of life. He is taught to think that his own comfort should always be the first object. A man can never be happy unless his first objects are outside himself. Personal self-indulgence begets a sense of meanness which sticks to a man even when he has got beyond all hope of rescue.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “The night was bright with stars, but there was no moon in the heavens, and the gloom of the ivy-coloured church tower was complete. But all the outlines of the place were so well known to him that he could trace them all in the dim light.”

225. “The night was bright with stars, but there was no moon in the heavens, and the gloom of the ivy-coloured church tower was complete. But all the outlines of the place were so well known to him that he could trace them all in the dim light.”

— Anthony Trollope

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

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

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.”

227. “I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?”

228. “What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “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.”

229. “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

Anthony Trollope Quote: “The truth is so much more real when it comes from things that are near.”

230. “The truth is so much more real when it comes from things that are near.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.”

231. “When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.”

232. “When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.”

233. “But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “Both Lizzieites and anti-Lizzieites were disposed to think that Lizzie was very clever.”

234. “Both Lizzieites and anti-Lizzieites were disposed to think that Lizzie was very clever.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “Sympathy may, no doubt, be conveyed by letter; but there are things on which it is almost impossible for any writer to express himself with adequate feeling; and there are things, too, which can be spoken, but which cannot be written.”

235. “Sympathy may, no doubt, be conveyed by letter; but there are things on which it is almost impossible for any writer to express himself with adequate feeling; and there are things, too, which can be spoken, but which cannot be written.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.”

236. “The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.”

— Anthony Trollope

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

237. “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

Anthony Trollope Quote: “He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.”

238. “He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious. She would be constant with him day and night to make him understand that his duty to his country required him to be in very truth its chief ruler.”

239. “Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious. She would be constant with him day and night to make him understand that his duty to his country required him to be in very truth its chief ruler.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “Publish what, you unreasonable man?” “Man! sir; whom do you call a man? I’ll let you know whether I’m a man – post-chaise there!” “Don’t ‘ee call him names now, doctor; don’t ‘ee, pray don’t ‘ee,” said Lady Scatcherd. By this time they had all got somewhere nearer the hall-door; but the Scatcherd retainers were too fond of the row to absent themselves willingly at Dr Fillgrave’s bidding, and it did not appear that any one went in search of the post-chaise.”

240. “Publish what, you unreasonable man?” “Man! sir; whom do you call a man? I’ll let you know whether I’m a man – post-chaise there!” “Don’t ‘ee call him names now, doctor; don’t ‘ee, pray don’t ‘ee,” said Lady Scatcherd. By this time they had all got somewhere nearer the hall-door; but the Scatcherd retainers were too fond of the row to absent themselves willingly at Dr Fillgrave’s bidding, and it did not appear that any one went in search of the post-chaise.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “We English gentlemen hate the name of a lie, but how often do we find public men who believe each other’s words?”

241. “We English gentlemen hate the name of a lie, but how often do we find public men who believe each other’s words?”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “She was not softly delicate in all her ways; but in disposition and temper she was altogether generous. I do not know that she was at all points a lady, but had Fate so willed it she would have been a thorough gentleman.”

242. “She was not softly delicate in all her ways; but in disposition and temper she was altogether generous. I do not know that she was at all points a lady, but had Fate so willed it she would have been a thorough gentleman.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.”

243. “There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!”

244. “To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.”

245. “The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.”

— Anthony Trollope

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

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

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “That is to say, we think you cannot do so. People can do so many things that they don’t think they can do; and can’t do so many things that they think that they can do!”

247. “That is to say, we think you cannot do so. People can do so many things that they don’t think they can do; and can’t do so many things that they think that they can do!”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.”

248. “The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.”

249. “People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.”

— Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope Quote: “When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.”

250. “When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.”

— Anthony Trollope

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