Not who you're looking for? Others named The Prime Minister: 1875 novel by Anthony Trollope · 1941 film by Thorold Dickinson
“[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.”
“A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.”
“That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or a set of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer teats his sheep and oxen — makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and a soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.”
“It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.”
“Each thought himself, especially since this last promotion, to be indispensably necessary to the formation of London society, and was comfortable in the conviction that he had thoroughly succeeded in life by acquiring the privilege of sitting down to dinner three times a week with peers and peeresses.”
“Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.”
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