Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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