Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople will take you very much at your own reckoning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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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.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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