8 Anthony Trollope Quotes on Life

Anthony Trollope quotes on life

14. As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

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

40. I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

43. It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

56. 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.

61. The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

66. There is such a difference between life and theory.

83. The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.