I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThat I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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