The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPoverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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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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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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