Sweetmeats and sugarplums

"The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums." - Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope

I love that Trollope tells us exactly what he knows we want to hear...but in a manner so obvious that we feel a little shamed and sheepish when we read it.

Happiness in love

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.- Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

This sentence is a great encapsulation of what I love at Trollope.  Funny, ironic, everything good.