Quotes by Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) — Schriftsteller · Anglikanisch · England
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) war ein englischer Schriftsteller und leitender Postbeamter des viktorianischen Zeitalters. Bekannt ist das anglikanische Kirchenmitglied vor allem für seine Barsetshire-Romane über das Innenleben der Geistlichkeit, wobei die Literaturwissenschaft auch zeitgenössische antisemitische Stereotype in einzelnen Werken kritisiert. Für Bibelleser bieten seine Werke scharfsinnige Einsichten in menschliche Gewissenskonflikte, Heuchelei und das Ringen um ethische Integrität im Alltag.
Era: Revival & the 19th Century
Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, Ethical Questions, Time & Transience, Humility & Pride, Love, Suffering & the Question of God, Guilt & Forgiveness
Quotes by Anthony Trollope
God has a purpose in every pain He allows, and though we cannot always see the end, we must trust that the end will be love.
Anthony Trollope
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
Anthony Trollope
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Anthony Trollope
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
Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.
Anthony Trollope
In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.
Anthony Trollope
Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future,—never reached but always coming.
Anthony Trollope
The way to heaven has become very difficult for us because of our own inventions; but the way God laid out was very simple.
Anthony Trollope
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
Anthony Trollope
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
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 very much at your own reckoning.
Anthony Trollope
Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.
Anthony Trollope
Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
Anthony Trollope
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
Anthony Trollope
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
Anthony Trollope
For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.
Anthony Trollope
Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.
Anthony Trollope
But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.
Anthony Trollope
Wounds sometimes must be opened in order that they may be healed.
Anthony Trollope
It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary.
Anthony Trollope
I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving.
Anthony Trollope
Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm.
Anthony Trollope
The first duty of a Christian is to forgive, and the second is to forget the offence.
Anthony Trollope
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Anthony Trollope
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Anthony Trollope
Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.
Anthony Trollope
I like to have a plan," said Mr. Palliser. "And so do I," said his wife,--"if only for the sake of not keeping it.
Anthony Trollope
Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence.
Anthony Trollope
Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.
Anthony Trollope
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
Anthony Trollope
When a man gets into his head an idea that the public voice calls for him, it is astonishing how great becomes his trust in the wisdom of the public.
Anthony Trollope
There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.
Anthony Trollope
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
Anthony Trollope
A clergyman generally dislikes being met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose.
Anthony Trollope
Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity.
Anthony Trollope
A liar has many points to his favour,—but he has this against him, that unless he devote more time to the management of his lies than life will generally allow, he cannot make them tally.
Anthony Trollope
He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking.
Anthony Trollope
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
Anthony Trollope
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
Anthony Trollope
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Sources: victorianweb.org, salisburyclosepreservation.org, slantbooks.org, taylorfrancis.com
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