quotes by Anthony Trollope

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

"Don't let love interfere with your appetite.
It never does with mine."
— Anthony Trollope

""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 (The Eustace Diamonds (Penguin Classics))

"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 (Can You Forgive Her? (Penguin Classics))

"'Shall a man have nothing of his own; -- no sorrow in his heart, no care in his family, no thought in his breast so private and special to him, but that, if he happen to be a clergyman, the bishop may touch it with his thumb?'
'I am not the bishop's thumb,' said Mr. Thumble"
— Anthony Trollope (The Last Chronicle of Barset (Penguin Classics))

"‘There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.’
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— Anthony Trollope

"Of all needs a book has,
the chief need is to be readable.
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— Anthony Trollope

"The most deadly enemies of the Roman Catholics are they who love best their religion as Protestants. When we look to individuals we always find it so, though it hardly suits us to admit as much when we discuss these subjects broadly."
— Anthony Trollope (Rachel Ray (Oxford World's Classics))