I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAfter money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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A 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.
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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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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 have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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