black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Anthony Trollope

Related Topics

All Ambition Earth Enterprise Grand Important Parent Rise Salt Thing World

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Admit Apparent Awe Driven God Inequality Injustice Mind Struct Thinkerm Student
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Become Clan Doctrine Interest Large Man Politician Slow Subversive Unnecessary
It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Angry Done Incline Little Naturally Other Proof Reach Singular Speak Think
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Cause Disturbance Man Married People Suppose
When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Creeper Delicate Found Grow Parasite Plant Prosper Stroke Tower
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Book Civil Coffee Cup Earth Ecer Everything Luxurious More
There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Another Choose Found Lie May Order Shunned Sin Thing Well Worse
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Difficult Easy Generally Listener Old Speaker Speechless Young
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Being Bloodthirsty Philanthropist Profesional Sometimes Through Venomous
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Greatest Honesty Most Rogues Talk Think
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Many More Much People Talk
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Become Half Known Marvellous Secret Themselves Way Wonderful World
I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Chatter Down Hold Insignificant Put Those Wish World
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Clever Dislike Down Effort Hate Lazy Make Man Men Strike Stupid Talk
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Character Charity Consider Discuss Given Much Other Spirit Structure
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Alloy Fade Habit Know One Only Other Pleasure Read When

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes