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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There 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.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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