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She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar.
The Prime Minister (1876)
Their support was not needed, therefore they were not courted.
The Prime Minister (1876)
A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.
Framley Parsonage (1861)
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
Framley Parsonage (1861)
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.
North America (1862)
One of her instructors in fashion had given her to understand that curls were not the thing. "They'll always pass muster," Miss Dunstable had replied, "when they are done up with bank notes."
Doctor Thorne (1858)
He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, — and therefore he'll be a success.
The Prime Minister (1876)
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
Phineas Finn (1869)
The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room.
To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; — to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.
An Autobiography (1883)
The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.
The Prime Minister (1876)
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.
The Prime Minister (1876)
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little — or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
An Autobiography (1883)
He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.
An Autobiography (1883)
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
Framley Parsonage (1861)
I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.
Next to a sum of money down, a grievance is the best thing you can have. A man who can stick to a grievance year after year will always make money out of it at last.
Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
North America (1862)
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
The Prime Minister (1876)