But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAfter money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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