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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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