black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

Anthony Trollope

Related Topics

Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Change Content Divine Human Hurry Lower Sink Something Test
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Good Himself Hold Low Man Nobody Opinion
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Always Happy Matter Melancholy Most Novel Pretty Romance Story Tell Very
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Deceive Else Men No One Succeed Themselves
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Advertise Anything Become Certainty Now Sell Sufficient
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Doubt Fashion Life Measure Men Place Politics Public Say
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

End English Except Happiness Love Novel
Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Man More Much Partisan Patrick Politics Side Some Think Unless Well Will
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Brave Certainty Credit Favor Fortune Give Most Themselves Unlimited World
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Believe Foreigner Ourselves Possible Respect Wiser
He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Above Cautious Digestion General Good Manner Skin Timid
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Associate Awkward Ease Form Gaitstruglle Limb Men Often REquired Sky Urgainly Word Yet Young
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Admire Always Arch Beauty Life Master Neck Prance Showy Work
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Dose Poison Small Success Taken
But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Die Ever Fact Known Mad Man never Nothing Trouble Well
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Come Easy Misfortune Necessary Success Very Unfortunate

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes