There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEDon’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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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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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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