The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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