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Anthony Trollope Quotes: "A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency."

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.




Anthony Trollope Quotes: "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."

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.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth."

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.




Anthony Trollope Quotes: "I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world."

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it."

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician."

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.




Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures."

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



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "No other American city is so intensely American as New York."

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable."

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it."

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg."

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.




Anthony Trollope Quotes: "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."

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.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent."

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere."

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "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."

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.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "I ain't a bit ashamed of anything."

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever."

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "A husband is very much like a house or a horse."

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "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."

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.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens."

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away."

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually."

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony."

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "When it comes to money nobody should give up anything."

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays."

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high."

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural."

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face."

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "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."

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.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people."

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness."

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums."

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence."

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed."

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there."

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour."

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise."

Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away."

Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work."

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give."

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life."

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "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."

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.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain."

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves."

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "There is such a difference between life and theory."

There is such a difference between life and theory.



Anthony Trollope Quotes: "An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted."

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.