Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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 show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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