There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEEvery man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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