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 TROLLOPEMen and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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