A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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