“ A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. Anthony Trollope
“ Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and… Anthony Trollope
“ In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. Anthony Trollope
“ 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 a… Anthony Trollope
“ As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. Anthony Trollope
“ The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion Anthony Trollope
“ Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. Anthony Trollope
“ It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. Anthony Trollope
“ The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade. Anthony Trollope
“ A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. Anthony Trollope
