There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETravel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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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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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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