Anthony Trollope Quotes
Anthony Trollope Quotes
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
3040 Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.
2877 There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel
4871 Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
1428 I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas.
'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.
3748 The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
1681 A woman's weapon is her tongue.
4123 That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
2352 In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.
3175 You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached himself this sermon, declared to himself that they who attempted more than this flew too high in the clouds to be of service to men an women upon the earth
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