Anthony Trollope Quotes on Fiction
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The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _____; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that something personal was intended; and as this tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the of the town in question, we are anxious that no personality may be suspected.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
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Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.