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Anthony Trollope quotes

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“He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he knew how to speak the truth.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“A man can't be bound without a penalty.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“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.”
“All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“But mad people never do die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,—cannot be altogether men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury...” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“But the school in which good training is most practised will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“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, Phineas Redux
“We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“I doubt whether patriotism can stand the wear and tear and temptation of the front benches in the House of Commons.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from dishonest stony-hearted Rome.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

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