When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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 hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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