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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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