Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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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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