I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWords spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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There 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.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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