Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel?
Anthony TrollopeThere is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind. Who is there that has not longed that the power and privilege of selection among alternatives should be taken away from him in some important crisis of his life, and that his conduct should be arranged for him, either this way or that, by some divine power if it were possible, - by some patriarchal power in the absence of divinity, - or by chance, even, if nothing better than chance could be found to do it? But no one dares to cast the die, and to go honestly by the hazard. There must be the actual necessity of obeying the die, before even the die can be of any use.
Anthony TrollopeTag: decisions
Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.
Anthony TrollopeIf I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart. Even if I were young and good-looking, I doubt whether I could please myself. As it is I am likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife.
Anthony TrollopeI am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
Anthony TrollopeWine is a dangerous thing, and should not be made the exponent of truth, let the truth be good as it may; but it has the merit of forcing a man to show his true colors.
Anthony TrollopeThe end of a novel, like the end of children’s dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum
Anthony TrollopeHe's a very handsome man, is the captain," said Jeaneatte. . .
"You shouldn't think about handsome men, child," said Mrs. Greenow.
"And I'm sure I don't," said Jeanette. "Not more than anybody else; but if a man is handsome, ma'am, why, it stands to reason that he is handsome.
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
Anthony TrollopeThe greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
Anthony TrollopeTag: best-things-in-life
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