The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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