I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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