I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA husband is very much like a house or a horse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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