A bull in a china shop is not a useful animal, nor is he ornamental, but there can be no doubt of his energy.
--Anthony Trollope
A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician.
--Anthony Trollope
A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.
--Anthony Trollope
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
--Anthony Trollope
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
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
--Anthony Trollope
I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.
--Anthony Trollope
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
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
--Anthony Trollope
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
--Anthony Trollope
It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.
--Anthony Trollope
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
--Anthony Trollope
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
--Anthony Trollope
Loyalty in politics was simply devotion to the side which a man conceives to be his side, and which he cannot leave without danger to himself.
--Anthony Trollope
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
--Anthony Trollope
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
--Anthony Trollope
Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
--Anthony Trollope
People go on quarreling 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
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
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
--Anthony Trollope
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
--Anthony Trollope
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.
--Anthony Trollope
The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
--Anthony Trollope
The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
--Anthony Trollope
The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
--Anthony Trollope
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
--Anthony Trollope
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
--Anthony Trollope
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
--Anthony Trollope
There is such a difference between life and theory.
--Anthony Trollope
There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilized and free countries, than the necessity of listening to sermons.
--Anthony Trollope
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
--Anthony Trollope
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
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?
--Anthony Trollope
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