“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 27
Quotes from book
Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers, published in 1857 by Anthony Trollope, is the second novel in his series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". Among other things it satirises the antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. Trollope began writing this book in 1855. He wrote constantly and made himself a writing-desk so he could continue writing while travelling by train. "Pray know that when a man begins writing a book he never gives over", he wrote in a letter during this period. "The evil with which he is beset is as inveterate as drinking – as exciting as gambling".
“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 38
“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 20
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 6
“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 20; this derives from an expression attributed to Euclid.
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 9
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 53
