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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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