Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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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.
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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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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 cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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