Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThey are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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.
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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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