The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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When 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.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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