Author: Anthony Trollope

Quotes

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

- 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

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