Quotes by Anthony Trollope

"Sit down and write your letter; write it with all the venom in your power; spit out your spleen at the fullest; 'twill do you good ... say all that you can say with all your poisoned eloquence, and gratify yourself by reading it while your temper is still hot. Then put it in your desk; and, as a matter of course, burn it before breakfast the following morning."

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) English author Autobiography, ch. 15.

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

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 at your own reckoning.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

Life is so unlike theory.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.