Author: Anthony Trollope

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is so unlike theory.

Life is so unlike theory.

- 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

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