Happiness Quotes by Anthony Trollope

10 Happiness quotes by Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope’s keen observation of Victorian life also turned to the pursuit of contentment. In this modest selection, his prose suggests that happiness often resides in duty, relationships, and modest aspirations.

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

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“Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future,—never reached but always coming. ”

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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

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

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“But she was not a woman to be unhappy because she was growing old. Her happiness, like that of most of us,…

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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment…

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Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be…

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But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and…

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“If he was dull as a statesman he was more dull in private life, and it may be imagined that such a…

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To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of…

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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

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“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.”

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Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

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“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm…

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

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

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But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

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

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“The heroes of life are so much better than the heroes of romance,” said Caroline.”

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