When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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 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. . .
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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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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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.
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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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