And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Quote by Anthony Trollope

Topics: Anthony Trollope Quotes

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

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

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong...

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong...

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted...

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted...

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty...

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty...

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter...

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter...

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

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

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible...

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible...

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit...

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit...

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will...

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will...

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined....

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined....

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does...

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does...

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.