Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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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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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.
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They 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.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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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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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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