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Anthony Trollope Quotes

Anthony Trollope quotes about thinking

English Author April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882

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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... Anthony Trollope
As for reading, I doubt whether she did much better by the sea-side than she had done in the town. Men and women say that they will read, and think so—those, I mean, who have acquired no habit of reading—believing the work to be, of all works, the easiest. It may be work, they think, but of all works it must be the easiest of achievement. Given the absolute faculty of reading, the task of going through the pages of a book must be, of all tasks, the most certainly within the grasp of the man... Anthony Trollope
And then she began to think about Lady Glencora herself. What a strange, weird nature she was,—with her round blue eyes and wavy hair, looking sometimes like a child and sometimes almost like an old woman! And how she talked! What things she said, and what terrible forebodings she uttered of stranger things that she meant to say! Anthony Trollope
Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope quote: "Above all else, never think you're not good enough."
Above all else, never think you're not good enough. Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope quote: "Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel?"
Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel? Anthony Trollope
My dear, the truth must be spoken. I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you are. When are you to begin to think about getting married if you don't do it now?"I shall never begin to think about it, till I buy my wedding clothes. Anthony Trollope
He'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. Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope quote: "I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their..."
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty. Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope quote: "When men think much, they can rarely decide."
When men think much, they can rarely decide. Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope quote: "No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is..."
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. Anthony Trollope

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