The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAny one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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 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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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