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 TROLLOPEPoverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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What is there that money will not do?
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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