Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“own husband. And even now, it seemed to argue so black an ingratitude on her part—this accusation that she was indifferent to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
But that his wife should be one of the performers, that she should be gazed at by a crowd as she tripped… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart.… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Nothing perhaps is so efficacious in preventing men from marrying as the tone in which married women speak of the struggles made… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“There was very much in the whole affair of which he would not be proud as he led his bride to the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“If he was dull as a statesman he was more dull in private life, and it may be imagined that such a… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“My dear, the truth must be spoken. I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
