Anthony Trollope Art Quotations

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.

Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.

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.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

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

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.