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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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What is there that money will not do?
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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