“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”

— Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now (1875), Ch. 84

About Anthony Trollope

1815 – 1882

English novelist, author of the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

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

“Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.”

“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.”

“I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”