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 TROLLOPEThere is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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 daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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