Anthony Trollope quote: We all profess to believe when we're told

“When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.”

Should Sex Married Rate Thrown Allegiance One Direction Treacherous

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.”

Pleasure Politician Oneself Opponents Charm Pulling

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.”

Thinking Knows Believe Hands Views Thousand Regard Mere Lawyer Fees Wigs

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: 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.”

People Thinking Knows World Romance Goes On Married

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.”

Children Today America House Parent Born Chance Growing Up Growing Couple Married Europe Reverence Units Sweden Unmarried Married Couples

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.”

Doe Hands Seems Easy Results Honesty Prison Stealing Secure Diets Garments Silk Satin

Book:The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister

“Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?”

Knows World Littles Doe Office Bigger Affair Certainty Ease Dull Autumn Delicious Parliament Chamber Public Office Bismarck

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.”

People Body Together Voice Subjects Various Statesmen Discord

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.”

Ifs Would Be Heaven

Author:Anthony Trollope

“Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.”

Ifs Hard Enough Fall Chance Greater Harder Get Over Fence Chances Are

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

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