Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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