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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEHe should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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 any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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