There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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