Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollopewas one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Among his best-loved works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 April 1815
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Never mingle love and business.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . .
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She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration.
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She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony; that is, of course, provided that the aspirant declines the slow course of honest work.