Top 15 Anthony Trollope Quotes

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

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

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

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so. It is hardly too much to say that we all of us occasionally speak of our dearest friends in a manner in which those dearest friends would very little like to hear themselves mentioned, and that we nevertheless expect that our dearest friends shall invariably speak of us as though they were blind to all our faults, but keenly alive to every shade of our virtues.

Of all needs a book has,
the chief need is to be readable.