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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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