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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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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.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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