Anthony Trollope Quotes

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I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.

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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

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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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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.

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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little — or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

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Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

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He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

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[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.

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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

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The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.

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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.

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Why should he do it at all? asked Phineas.
That's what everybody asks, but the answer seems to be so plain! Because he can do it, and we can't.

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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

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Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

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But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.

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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

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But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

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Men when they are true are simple. They are often false has hell, and then they are crafty as Lucifer. But the man who is true judges others by himself, — almost without reflection. A woman can be true as steel and cunning at the same time.

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In political matters it is very hard for a man in office to be purer than his neighbours, — and, when he is so, he becomes troublesome.

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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; 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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