Never mingle love and business. Anthony Trollope More Quotes by Anthony Trollope More Quotes From Anthony Trollope 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. Anthony Trollope romance matter stories Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle. Anthony Trollope battle fighting rights I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that. Anthony Trollope romance rocks real That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Anthony Trollope i-can-read reading blessing 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. Anthony Trollope remnants sanity madness 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. Anthony Trollope left-alone novel meals A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife. Anthony Trollope husband perfect men The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion Anthony Trollope england church world Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver. Anthony Trollope mistake past years But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing. Anthony Trollope used ends mean But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness. Anthony Trollope purple luxury men For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden. Anthony Trollope folly sorrow I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men. Anthony Trollope fit men way It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything. Anthony Trollope opinion He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden. Anthony Trollope burden merit time Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark. Anthony Trollope girl eye dark The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. Anthony Trollope editors habit writing Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything. Anthony Trollope insulting new-york two It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city. Anthony Trollope cities science country Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed. Anthony Trollope creating vices order
