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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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