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 TROLLOPEI 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. . .
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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What 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.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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 greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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