black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Anthony Trollope

Related Topics

Adequate Could Indeed Ladder Life Men might Perfection Picture True

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Clearly Come Habot Himself Msecvem Critic Soon Write Writer
Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Enough Good Man never Think
I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Action Declaration Godward Judge Man
He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Above Cautious Digestion General Good Manner Skin Timid
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Afford Any Love Luxury Other Right Unless
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Become Clan Doctrine Interest Large Man Politician Slow Subversive Unnecessary
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Anything Do Government Knew never Want
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Anything Give Money Nobody When Come
Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Almost Girl Himself Honesty Know Love Loved Man No Perhaps Perilous Position Quit
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Best Dress Gentlemen Hols Observe
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

All Ambition Earth Enterprise Grand Important Parent Rise Salt Thing World
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Associate Awkward Ease Form Gaitstruglle Limb Men Often REquired Sky Urgainly Word Yet Young
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Came Country Dishonest Proven Stony Worst
Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Create Defense Dicken Impossible Jerky Praise Rule Style Ungrammatical
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Change Himself Man Suit Think Wife
Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Flavor Price Value

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes