Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI 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. . .
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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 men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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