And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Quote by Anthony Trollope

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I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will...

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will...

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye...

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye...

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit...

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit...

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew...

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew...

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to...

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to...

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so...

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so...

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will...

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will...

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but...

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but...

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god...

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god...

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter...

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter...

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the...

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the...

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be...

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be...

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

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

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

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any...

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any...

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an...

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an...

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.