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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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 hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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