A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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