The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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