There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future,—never reached but always coming. ” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“But she was not a woman to be unhappy because she was growing old. Her happiness, like that of most of us,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“If he was dull as a statesman he was more dull in private life, and it may be imagined that such a… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“(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… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
