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

— Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857), Chapter 27, "A Love Scene"

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.”

“Birds' songs express joy, beauty, and purity, and evoke in us vitality and love.”

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

“He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.”

“Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”