Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPower 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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