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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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.
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