“There is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind.”
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
“A girl almost always likes a man who is in love with her,—unless indeed she positively dislikes him.”
― The Palliser Novels: Complete Series - All 6 Books in One Edition: Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister & The Duke's Children
― The Palliser Novels: Complete Series - All 6 Books in One Edition: Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister & The Duke's Children
“Is it not astonishing that the price generally put upon any article by the world is that which the owner puts on it?—and that this is specially true of a man's own self?”
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
“I doubt whether an old man should ever live in England if he can help it.”
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
“Matrimony never seemed to me to be very charming, and upon my word it does not become more alluring by what I find at Loughlinter.”
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
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