The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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