Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAny one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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.
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When 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.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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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.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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