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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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