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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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.
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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.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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