One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMake all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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