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. . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Words 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.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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