Anthony Trollope

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

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. ”

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. ”

Life is so unlike theory. ”

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 good looks. ”

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. ”

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. ”

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do. ”

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. ”

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. ”