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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The 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.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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