All Anthony Trollope Quotes
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
Anthony Trollope
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
Anthony Trollope
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A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
Anthony Trollope
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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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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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