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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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