The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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