I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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