Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETill we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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 TROLLOPERomance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPerhaps 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 TROLLOPEHe 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 TROLLOPEMany people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA 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 TROLLOPECaveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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