There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Power 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.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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.
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