A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWe cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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