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

Quote by Anthony Trollope

Topics: Success Quotes

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which...

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which...

What is there that money will not do?

What is there that money will not do?

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...

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

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

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours...

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours...

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her...

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her...

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure...

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure...

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

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

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 think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

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...

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be...

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be...

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.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can...

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can...

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

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

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

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...

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but...

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but...