I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. - Anthony Trollope
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
- Anthony Trollope
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great und… - Anthony Trollope
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great und…
If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high. - Anthony Trollope
If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. - Anthony Trollope
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !. - Anthony Trollope
Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. - Anthony Trollope
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. - Anthony Trollope
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. - Anthony Trollope
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it. - Anthony Trollope
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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