I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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A 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.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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