I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWe cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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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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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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