The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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