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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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