Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his 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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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