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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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