Anthony Trollope Quotes
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He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.
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There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces.
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She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.
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He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat-of-nine-tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim.
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The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
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An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.
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When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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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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To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, - in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.