Author: Anthony Trollope

Quotes

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

- Anthony Trollope

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.

- Anthony Trollope

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

- Anthony Trollope

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

- Anthony Trollope

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

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

- Anthony Trollope

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

- Anthony Trollope

Life is so unlike theory.

Life is so unlike theory.

- Anthony Trollope

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.

- Anthony Trollope

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

- Anthony Trollope

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