Anthony Trollope Book Quotations

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?