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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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