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 TROLLOPEA husband is very much like a house or a horse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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