4 Anthony Trollope Quotes on Fiction

Anthony Trollope quotes on fiction

23. 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.

31. There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

33. The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

84. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.