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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELike 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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 think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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