In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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