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Anthony Trollope

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.

Good, Company, Person

Anthony Trollope

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

Man, Nobody, Ready

Anthony Trollope

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.

Light, Dance, Girl

Anthony Trollope

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

self-confidence

Anthony Trollope

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Anthony Trollope

Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Anthony Trollope

A novelist’s characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

characters, dreams, hate, love, novelist, sleep, wake, write, writer, writing

Anthony Trollope

The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.

generation-gap, generations, poverty, prosperity, time

Anthony Trollope

You are quite wrong about him,” Felix had said. “He has not been atan English school, or English university, and therefore is not like other young men that you know; but he is, I think, well educated and clever. As for conceit, what man will do any good who is notconceited? Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinionof himself.””All the same, my dear fellow, I do not like Lucius Mason.

confidence, confidence-and-attitude, egotism

Anthony Trollope

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

corruption, self-esteem

Anthony Trollope

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

life, self-esteem

Anthony Trollope

I do not know that Lady Glencora’s heart was made of that stern stuff which refuses to change its impressions; but it was a heart, and it required food. To love and fondle someone, – to be loved and fondled, were absolutely necessary to her happiness. She wanted the little daily assurance of her supremacy in the man’s feelings, the constant touch of love, half accidental half contrived, the passing glance of the eye telling perhaps of some little joke understood only between them two rather than of love, the softness of an occasional kiss given here and there when chance might bring them together, some half-pretended interest in her little doings, a nod, a wink, a shake of the head, or even a pout.

loneliness, want-of-love