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Anthony Trollope Quotes

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The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) 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  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) In political matters it is very hard for a man in office to be purer than his neighbours, and, when he is so, he becomes troublesome  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) All history, all romance, all poetry and all prose, taught him that perseverance in love was generally crowned with success, that true love rarely was crowned with success except by perseverance  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) Would that be justice, ladies? Asked the just man. It would be success, mr. Low, which is a great deal the better thing of the two  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony hearted Rome  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) I should have thought any dealer would have taken him back for the sake of his character. Any dealer would; but - I bought him from a gentleman  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) Isn't there some trouble about money? they wouldn't be very rich, duchess. What a blessing for them! But then, perhaps, they'd be very poor. they would be rather poor. Which is not a blessing  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) I don't much admire your taste, my dear, because he's a hundred and fifty years old; - and what there is of him comes chiefly from the tailor  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) I doubt whether patriotism can stand the ware and tear and temptation of the front benches in the House of Commons  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) He becomes strenuous, energetic, and perhaps eager for what must after all be regarded as success, and at last he fights for a verdict rather than for the truth  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) Perhaps I had better tell you the truth, mr. Gresham. Oh, certainly, said the Prime Minister, who knew very well that on such occasions nothing could be worse than the telling of disagreeable truths  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; - a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) 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  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat of nine tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, and therefore he'll be a success  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) You Ministers go on shuffling the old cards till they are so worn out and dirty that one can hardly tell the pips on them  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) I think it is so glorious, said the American. There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty  (Anthony Trollope Quotes) But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you  (Anthony Trollope Quotes)
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