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1:The fool wonders, the wise man asks." ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #KEYS
2:The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
3:I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
4:Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
5:My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #KEYS
6:Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
7:Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
8:Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
9:The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
10:Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #KEYS
11:Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
12:The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries, he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
13:Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Meditation is culture. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 2:We moralize among ruins. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 3:With words we govern men. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 4:Travel teaches toleration. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 5:Departure should be sudden. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 6:London is a modern Babylon. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 7:Party is organized opinion. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 8:The expected always happens ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 9:Tobacco is the tomb of love. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 10:Life is to short to be small. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 11:Be thine own privy counsellor. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 12:Genius, when young, is divine. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 13:A man's fate is his own temper. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 14:Duty cannot exist without faith ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 15:It is the lot of man to suffer. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 16:Life is too short to be little. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 17:Silence is the mother of truth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 18:We are taught words, not ideas. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 19:We cannot learn men from books. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 20:A precedent embalms a principle. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 21:Fear makes us feel our humanity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 22:Never take anything for granted. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 23:Man is more powerful than matter. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 24:Never complain and never explain. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 25:Small things affects small minds. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 26:Success is the child of audacity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 27:The gondola of London [a hansom]. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 28:A canter is the cure for all evil. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 29:Adventures are to the adventurous. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 30:Difficulties melt away under tact. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 31:Little things affect little minds. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 32:Nature is stronger than education. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 33:There is no wisdom like frankness. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 34:Despair is the conclusion of fools. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 35:Enthusiasm is the breath of genius. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 36:Great men never require experience. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 37:He who gains time gains everything. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 38:Ignorance never settles a question. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 39:There is moderation even in excess. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 40:There is no diplomacy like silence. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 41:There is no gambling like politics. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 42:Variety is the mother of Enjoyment. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 43:Without tact you can learn nothing. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 44:A person's fate is their own temper. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 45:Eloquence is the child of knowledge. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 46:The canter is a cure for every evil. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 47:The fool wonders, the wise man asks. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 48:In politics, nothing is contemptible. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 49:Nurture your mind with great thoughts ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 50:The indulgence in grief is a blunder. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 51:There is no education like adversity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 52:All is race - there is no other truth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 53:An obedient wife commands her husband. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 54:Books are the curse of the human race. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 55:I say that justice is truth in action. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 56:Religion is civilization, the highest. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 57:We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 58:Where knowledge ends, religion begins. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 59:A parsimony of words prodigal of sense. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 60:Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 61:Female friendships are of rapid growth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 62:The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 63:The unfortunate are always egotistical. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 64:Amusement to an observing mind is study. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 65:Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 66:Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 67:Change is inevitable. Change is constant. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 68:Everything comes if a man will only wait. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 69:Finality is not the language of politics. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 70:I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 71:When I want to read a novel, I write one. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 72:You have proved it is a very moral habit. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 73:Damn your principles! Stick to your party. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 74:In politics experiments means revolutions. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 75:Luck is what a capricious man believes in. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 76:Principle is ever my motto, no expediency. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 77:Quit the world, and the world forgets you. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 78:A book may be as great a thing as a battle. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 79:Everything in this world depends upon will. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 80:The sweet simplicity of the three percents. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 81:We make our fortunes and we call them fate. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 82:Change is constant in a progressive country. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 83:Destiny is our will, and our will is nature. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 84:Man is only great when he acts from passion. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 85:Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 86:The depositary of power is always unpopular. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 87:We make our own fortune and call it destiny. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 88:I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole! ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 89:Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 90:Poverty has its duties as well as its rights. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 91:All must respect those who respect themselves. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 92:I believe absence is a great element of charm. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 93:Information upon points of practical politics. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 94:Protection is not a principle but an expedient ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 95:The greatest of all evils is a weak government ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 96:There is no waste of time like making excuses. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 97:The secret of success is constancy to purpose. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 98:War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 99:The art of governing mankind by deceiving them. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 100:All my successes have been built on my failures. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 101:Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 102:I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 103:Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 104:Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 105:The originality of a subject is in its treatment. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 106:There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 107:Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 108:A majority is always better than the best repartee. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 109:I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 110:Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 111:Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 112:Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 113:The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 114:A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 115:Great countries are those that produce great people. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 116:I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 117:Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 118:There can be economy only where there is efficiency. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 119:There is no index of character so sure as the voice. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 120:The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 121:William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 122:Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 123:If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 124:I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 125:Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 126:The English nation is never so great as in adversity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 127:The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 128:Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 129:Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 130:The essence of education is the education of the body. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 131:Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 132:An author can have nothing truly his own but his style. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 133:Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 134:That fatal drollery called a representative government. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 135:The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 136:Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 137:Apologies only account for that which they do not alter. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 138:How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 139:The more you are talked about the less powerful you are. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 140:& 141:As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 142:Assassination has never changed the history of the world. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 143:I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 144:Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 145:Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 146:The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . . ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 147:Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 148:Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 149:England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 150:I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 151:What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 152:Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 153:Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 154:To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 155:The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 156:The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 157:Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 158:I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 159:Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 160:The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 161:The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 162:How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 163:Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 164:My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 165:The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 166:The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 167:What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 168:A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 169:All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 170:He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 171:Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 172:Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 173:Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times! ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 174:Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 175:Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 176:No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 177:The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 178:What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 179:Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 180:If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 181:I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 182:Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 183:No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 184:Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 185:The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 186:There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 187:A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 188:Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 189:Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 190:I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 191:Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 192:You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 193:I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 194:There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 195:The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 196:Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 197:A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 198:Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 199:Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 200:If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 201:Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 202:Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 203:Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 204:I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 205:It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 206:Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 207:The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 208:The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 209:Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 210:Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 211:We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 212:An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 213:Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 214:Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 215:No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 216:The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 217:To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 218:Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 219:I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 220:Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 221:Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 222:It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 223:Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 224:What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 225:Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 226:All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music! ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 227:No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 228:When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 229:I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 230:I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 231:Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 232:Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 233:There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 234:We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 235:When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 236:Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 237:Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 238:Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 239:More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 240:My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 241:There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 242:You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 243:The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 244:We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 245:A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 246:Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 247:Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 248:.. offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 249:A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 250:Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 251:The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 252:Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 253:Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 254:I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 255:No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 256:To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 257:A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 258:He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 259:Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 260:Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 261:Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 262:All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 263:People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 264:Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 265:To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 266:When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 267:A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 268:He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 269:Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 270:The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 271:The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 272:Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 273:The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 274:The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 275:There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 276:If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 277:The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 278:A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 279:Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 280:Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 281:You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 282:Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 283:Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 284:That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 285:As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 286:Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 287:Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 288:I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 289:One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 290:But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 291:I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 292:One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 293:The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 294:The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 295:As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 296:At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 297:Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace& 298:What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 299:You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 300:I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 301:A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 302:Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 303:The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 304:Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 305:Silence often expresses & 306:That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 307:There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 308:Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 309:An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 310:I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 311:Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 312:When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 313:Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 314:Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 315:Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 316:We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 317:Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 318:He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 319:It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 320:Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 321:Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 322:Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 323:She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 324:Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 325:Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 326:Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 327:Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 328:Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 329:The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 330:The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.” ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 331:The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 332:The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 333:You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 334:Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 335:I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 336:The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 337:There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 338:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 339:To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 340:Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism? ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 341:No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 342:Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 343:As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 344:In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 345:There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 346:Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 347:Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 348:Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 349:& 350:Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 351:The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 352:The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 353:Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 354:Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 355:All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 356:Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 357:Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 358:I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 359:There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 360:Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 361:I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 362:Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 363:Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 364:The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 365:As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 366:There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 367:The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 368:Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 369:Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 370:The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 371:Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 372:Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 373:What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 374:Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 375:Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 376:The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 377:The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 378:Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 379:London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 380:Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 381:Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 382:There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 383:A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 384:Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 385:The very phrase & 386:The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 387:Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 388:There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 389:As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 390:O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 391:A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 392:If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 393:One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 394:Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 395:Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 396:The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 397:The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 398:What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 399:It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 400:Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 401:King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 402:The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 403:& 404:I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 405:Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 406:The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 407:One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 408:Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 409:Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 410:Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 411:News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 412:The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 413:Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 414:There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 415:The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 416:Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 417:It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 418:A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 419:That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 420:Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 421:Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 422:Consider Ireland... . You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 423:You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 424:Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 425:The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 426:It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus! ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 427:You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 428:The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 429:As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 430:The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 431:Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 432:We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 433:The tone and tendency of liberalism... is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 434:Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 435:When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 436:Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 437:It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 438:In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 439:A member of Parliament to Disraeli: & 440:A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 441:I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 442:Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 443:The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 444:A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 445:A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 446:No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 447:Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 448:If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 449:I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 450:The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 451:Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 452:We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 453:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 454:Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 455:A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 456:The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 457:All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 458:The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 459:Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 460:Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 461:Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 462:Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 463:In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 464:It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 465:The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 466:I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 467:That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 468:England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,& 469:Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 470:Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race... . All is race, there is no other truth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 471:No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race& 472:What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 473:It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 474:What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 475:Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 476:The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 477:No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 478:You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 479:Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. & 480:It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 481:You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 482:It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 483:This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 484:This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 485:How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 486:Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection." ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 487:For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:The East is a career. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
2:Meditation is culture. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
3:We moralize among ruins. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
4:With words we govern men. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
5:Travel teaches toleration. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
6:Departure should be sudden. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
7:Justice is truth in action. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
8:London is a modern Babylon. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
9:Party is organized opinion. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
10:The expected always happens ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
11:Turtle makes all men equal. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
12:Beauty can inspire miracles. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
13:Departures should be sudden. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
14:Tobacco is the tomb of love. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
15:Her Majesty is not a subject. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
16:Life Is Too Short to be Small ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
17:Life is to short to be small. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
18:London; a nation, not a city. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
19:Be thine own privy counsellor. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
20:Genius, when young, is divine. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
21:Silence is the mother of truth ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
22:A man's fate is his own temper. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
23:Duty cannot exist without faith ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
24:It is the lot of man to suffer. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
25:Life is too short to be little. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
26:Never apologize, never explain. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
27:Silence is the mother of truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
28:We are taught words, not ideas. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
29:We cannot learn men from books. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
30:A precedent embalms a principle. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
31:Fear makes us feel our humanity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
32:Never take anything for granted. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
33:England does not love coalitions. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
34:Little things affect little minds ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
35:London is a roost for every bird. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
36:Man is more powerful than matter. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
37:Never complain and never explain. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
38:Small things affects small minds. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
39:Success is the child of audacity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
40:The gondola of London [a hansom]. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
41:A canter is the cure for all evil. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
42:Adventures are to the adventurous. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
43:Difficulties melt away under tact. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
44:Little things affect little minds. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
45:Nature is stronger than education. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
46:There is no wisdom like frankness. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
47:Despair is the conclusion of fools. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
48:Enthusiasm is the breath of genius. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
49:Great men never require experience. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
50:He who gains time gains everything. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
51:Ignorance never settles a question. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
52:There is moderation even in excess. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
53:There is no diplomacy like silence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
54:There is no gambling like politics. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
55:Variety is the mother of Enjoyment. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
56:Without tact you can learn nothing. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
57:Youth is the trustee of prosperity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
58:A person's fate is their own temper. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
59:Eloquence is the child of knowledge. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
60:The canter is a cure for every evil. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
61:The fool wonders, the wise man asks. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
62:As for our majority... one is enough. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
63:A vida é muito curta para ser pequena ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
64:In politics, nothing is contemptible. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
65:Nurture your mind with great thoughts ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
66:The indulgence in grief is a blunder. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
67:There is no education like adversity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
68:All is race - there is no other truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
69:An obedient wife commands her husband. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
70:Books are the curse of the human race. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
71:I say that justice is truth in action. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
72:Religion is civilization, the highest. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
73:To believe in the heroic makes heroes. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
74:We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
75:Where knowledge ends, religion begins. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
76:A parsimony of words prodigal of sense. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
77:Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
78:Every moment is travel - if understood. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
79:Female friendships are of rapid growth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
80:The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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81:The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
82:The unfortunate are always egotistical. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
83:Amusement to an observing mind is study. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
84:Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
85:Every woman should marry ... and no man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
86:When I want to read a book, I write one. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
87:Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
88:Change is inevitable. Change is constant. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
89:Everything comes if a man will only wait. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
90:Finality is not the language of politics. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
91:I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
92:When I want to read a novel, I write one. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
93:You have proved it is a very moral habit. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
94:Damn your principles! Stick to your party. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
95:In politics experiments means revolutions. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
96:Luck is what a capricious man believes in. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
97:Principle is ever my motto, no expediency. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
98:Quit the world, and the world forgets you. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
99:A book may be as great a thing as a battle. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
100:Ama-se mais o que se conquista com esforço. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
101:Everything in this world depends upon will. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
102:The sweet simplicity of the three percents. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
103:We make our fortunes and we call them fate. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
104:Change is constant in a progressive country. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
105:Destiny is our will, and our will is nature. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
106:Man is only great when he acts from passion. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
107:Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
108:Political life must be taken as you find it. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
109:The depositary of power is always unpopular. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
110:We make our own fortune and call it destiny. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
111:I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
112:I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole! ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
113:Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
114:Poverty has its duties as well as its rights. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
115:When I want to read a good book, I write one. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
116:All must respect those who respect themselves. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
117:I believe absence is a great element of charm. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
118:Information upon points of practical politics. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
119:Protection is not a principle but an expedient ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
120:The greatest of all evils is a weak government ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
121:There is no waste of time like making excuses. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
122:The secret of success is constancy to purpose. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
123:The secret to success is constancy of purpose. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
124:War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
125:Life is too short to be small. —BENJAMIN DISRAELI ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
126:Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
127:The art of governing mankind by deceiving them. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
128:All my successes have been built on my failures. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
129:Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
130:I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
131:Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
132:Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
133:Books are companions even if you don't open them. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
134:The originality of a subject is in its treatment. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
135:There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
136:Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
137:No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
138:A majority is always better than the best repartee. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
139:Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
140:England is governed not by logic but by parliament. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
141:I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
142:Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
143:Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
144:"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
145:Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
146:The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
147:A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
148:Great countries are those that produce great people. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
149:I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
150:Life is too short to be small. —BENJAMIN DISRAELI ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
151:Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
152:There can be economy only where there is efficiency. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
153:There is no index of character as sure as the voice. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
154:There is no index of character so sure as the voice. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
155:The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
156:William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
157:Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
158:Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
159:If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
160:I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
161:Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
162:Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
163:The English nation is never so great as in adversity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
164:The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
165:There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
166:Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
167:Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
168:The essence of education is the education of the body. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
169:Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
170:An author can have nothing truly his own but his style. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
171:Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
172:That fatal drollery called a representative government. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
173:The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
174:Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
175:Apologies only account for that which they do not alter. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
176:How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
177:I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
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178:Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
179:The more you are talked about the less powerful you are. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
180:As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
181:Assassination has never changed the history of the world. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
182:I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
183:Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
184:Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
185:The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . . ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
186:Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
187:Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
188:Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
189:England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
190:I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
191:Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
192:What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
193:Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
194:Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
195:Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
196:The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
197:To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
198:The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
199:The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
200:Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
201:Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
202:I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted," said Egremont. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
203:I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
204:There is no education like adversity.
--Benjamin Disraeli ~ Bear Grylls,#NFDB
205:Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
206:The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
207:The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
208:How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
209:Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
210:My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
211:Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
212:The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
213:The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
214:What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
215:A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
216:All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
217:He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
218:In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
219:My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
220:My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
221:Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
222:What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
223:Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
224:Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times! ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
225:Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
226:Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
227:I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
228:No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
229:Talk to people about themselves, and they will listen for hours. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
230:The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
231:What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
232:A consistent man believes in destiny; a capricious man in chance. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
233:Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
234:If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
235:I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
236:Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
237:No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
238:Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
239:The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
240:The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
241:There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
242:There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
243:A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
244:Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
245:Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
246:Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
247:I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
248:I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
249:The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
250:To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
251:Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
252:You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
253:Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
254:I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
255:The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
256:There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
257:The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
258:Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
259:Power has only one duty--to secure the social welfare of the people. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
260:A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
261:A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
262:Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
263:Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
264:If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
265:Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
266:Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
267:The world is governed by personalities very different to what people ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
268:Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
269:Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
270:I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
271:It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
272:Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
273:The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
274:The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
275:Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
276:Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
277:We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
278:You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
279:An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
280:Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
281:Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
282:No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
283:The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
284:The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
285:To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
286:Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
287:I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
288:Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
289:Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
290:Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
291:To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
292:A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
293:It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
294:Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
295:What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
296:Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
297:All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music! ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
298:No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
299:What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
300:When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
301:I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
302:I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
303:Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
304:Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
305:Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
306:There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
307:We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
308:When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
309:Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
310:Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
311:Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
312:More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
313:My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
314:There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
315:You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
316:Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
317:The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
318:We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
319:What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
320:A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
321:Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
322:Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
323:A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
324:Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
325:Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
326:The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
327:Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
328:Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
329:I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
330:No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
331:To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
332:A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
333:Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
334:He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
335:Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
336:Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
337:Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
338:We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
339:Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
340:The secret of success in life: Prepare for opportunity when it comes. —Benjamin Disraeli ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
341:Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
342:All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
343:People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
344:The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
345:Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
346:To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
347:When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
348:A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
349:He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
350:Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
351:The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
352:The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
353:A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
354:Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
355:Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
356:The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
357:The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
358:There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
359:We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
360:If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
361:Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
362:The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
363:A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
364:Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
365:Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
366:Read no history—nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. —BENJAMIN DISRAELI ~ Liaquat Ahamed, #NFDB
367:The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
368:You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
369:Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
370:Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
371:That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
372:As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
373:Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
374:Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
375:I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
376:Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts.” —BENJAMIN DISRAELI ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
377:One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
378:Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
379:The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
380:You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
381:Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.—BENJAMIN DISRAELI ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
382:But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
383:I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
384:One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
385:The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. Benjamin Disraeli ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
386:The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
387:The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
388:As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
389:At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
390:Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
391:To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
392:What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
393:You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
394:What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
395:I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
396:There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
397:A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
398:Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
399:The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
400:Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
401:Justice is truth in action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851 ~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
402:Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
403:Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
404:That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
405:There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
406:Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
407:An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
408:I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
409:Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
410:Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
411:Never argue. In society nothing must be discussed; give only results. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804–1881) ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
412:When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
413:Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
414:Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
415:Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
416:We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
417:Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
418:He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
419:It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
420:It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
421:Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.” —Benjamin Disraeli ~ Angela Roquet, #NFDB
422:The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
423:Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
424:Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
425:The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
426:'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.' ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
427:¿No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el arte. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
428:Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
429:She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
430:Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
431:Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
432:The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
433:Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
434:Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
435:Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
436:The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
437:The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
438:The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his time when it comes.”
—BENJAMIN DISRAELI ~ John C Maxwell,#NFDB
439:The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
440:You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
441:Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
442:I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
443:The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
444:The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
445:There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
446:An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
447:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
448:Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism? ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
449:Sikap yang layak dan tenggang rasa terhadap orang-orang lain merupakan dua sifat utama seorang yang bijak. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
450:To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
451:Non chiedere mai scusa quando esterni un sentimento. Nel momento in cui lo fai, chiedi scusa per la verità. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
452:No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
453:What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
454:Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
455:There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
456:As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
457:Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.” —BENJAMIN DISRAELI ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
458:In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
459:There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
460:Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
en.path-2-happiness.com ~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
461:Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
462:Kita dilahirkan untuk mencintai sesama.
Itulah prinsip keberadaan kita di dunia ini dan tujuan satu-satunya. ~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
463:Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
464:Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
465:Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
466:Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
467:The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
468:The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
469:Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
470:Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
471:All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
472:Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
473:The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
474:Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
475:I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
476:There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
477:We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
478:Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
479:I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
480:Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
481:Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
482:Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
483:As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
484:The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
485:There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
486:There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
487:Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
488:The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
489:The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
490:Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
491:The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
492:Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
493:If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
494:Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
495:What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
496:Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
497:Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
498:The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
499:The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
500:Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
501:London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
502:Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
503:Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
504:Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. —BENJAMIN DISRAELI, former British Prime Minister ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
505:Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
506:There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
507:A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
508:The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
509:Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
510:Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
511:A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
512:The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
513:Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
514:Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
515:There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
516:As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
517:I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
518:O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
519:A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
520:The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
521:If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
522:One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
523:Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
524:Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
525:"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell." ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
526:The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
527:The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
528:What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
529:It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
530:Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
531:King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
532:The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
533:A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
534:I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
535:Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
536:The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
537:One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
538:Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
539:Yes," said Lady St Julians. "I think those men who breakfast out or who give breakfasts are generally dangerous characters; at least, I would not trust them. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
540:Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
541:The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries, he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
542:Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
543:News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
544:In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
545:The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
546:Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
547:There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
548:The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
549:Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
550:It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
551:Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
552:A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
553:That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
554:Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
555:It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
556:Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
557:Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
558:You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
559:Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
560:You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
561:The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
562:Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
563:It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus! ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
564:What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
565:The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
566:Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
567:As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
568:The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
569:Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
570:My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
571:Books," says E. P. Whipple, "are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time." "As a rule," said Benjamin Disraeli, "the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
572:We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
573:The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
574:A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
575:The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
576:Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
577:Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, speech, House of Commons (June 15, 1874). Parliamentary Debates (Commons), 3d series, vol. 219, col. 1618 (1874)., #NFDB
578:When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
579:Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
580:A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'
That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress. ~ Benjamin Disraeli,#NFDB
581:It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
582:In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
583:A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
584:I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
585:Benjamin Disraeli had anticipated Erewhon's fears in his novel Coningsby: "The mystery of mysteries," he wrote, "is to view machines making machines, a spectacle that fills the mind with curious and even awful speculation. ~ Ronald Wright, #NFDB
586:Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
587:The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
588:The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
589:A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
590:A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
591:No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
592:If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
593:I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
594:The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
595:"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell." ~ Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion (1880), Chapter LXXXI. Borrowed from Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (Lord Shaftesbury), #NFDB
596:Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
597:We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
598:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
599:Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
600:A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
601:The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
602:The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
603:All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
604:The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
605:Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
606:Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
607:Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
608:Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
609:In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
610:It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
611:In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
612:In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes;; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
613:In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
614:I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
615:The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
616:Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
617:I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
618:England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
619:And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
620:That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
621:Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
622:No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
623:The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live! ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
624:You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
625:What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
626:It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
627:Peru has had a Japanese president (Alberto Fujimori). Britain had a Jewish prime minister, all of whose grandparents were born in Italy (Benjamin Disraeli). No one calls these countries “nations of immigrants.” America has never had a president who wasn’t, at least in part, of British ancestry, but people still babble that we’re a nation of immigrants. ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
628:What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
629:Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
630:The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
631:Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
632:Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
633:Man is created for a purpose; the object of his existence is to perfect himself. Man is imperfect by nature, because if nature had made him perfect he would have had no wants; and it is only by supplying his wants that utility can be developed. The development of utility is therefore the object of our being, and the attainment of this great end the cause of our existence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
634:No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
635:You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
636:Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
637:It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
638:You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
639:It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
640:This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
641:This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
642:The messenger from the Republics of the West now prostrated himself before the Statue. He informed it that two parties had, unfortunately, broken out in these countries, and threatened their speedy dissolution; that one party maintained that all human government originated in the wants of man; while the other party asserted that it originated in the desires of man. That these factions had become so violent and so universal that public business was altogether stopped, ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
643:How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
644:Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection." ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
645:For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
646:If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
647:When Benjamin Disraeli spoke of the 'two nations' in Britain he was perfectly right, only the working classes were not exactly a nation. But the gap in behavioral standards and in outlook, and of course in standards of living, were enormous. And in course of time, at least in countries such as Britain, the working classes more or less adopted and have become assimilated to the standards of the so-called 'gentle' classes. That is assimilation.The working class has hardly been able to govern, but they are no longer outsiders in relation to the state as they were before. ~ Norbert Elias, #NFDB
648:IN THE TORRID London summer of 1886, William Gladstone was up against Benjamin Disraeli for the post of prime minister of the United Kingdom. This was the Victorian era, so whoever won was going to rule half the world. In the very last week before the election, both men happened to take the same young woman out to dinner. Naturally, the press asked her what impressions the rivals had made. She said, “After dining with Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest person in England. But after dining with Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest person in England.” Guess who won the election? It was the man who made others feel intelligent, impressive, and fascinating: Benjamin Disraeli. ~ Olivia Fox Cabane, #NFDB
649:In 1872, Lubbock learned from a rector in rural Wiltshire that a big chunk of Avebury, an ancient circle of stones considerably larger than Stonehenge (though not so picturesquely composed), was about to be cleared away for new housing. Lubbock bought the threatened land, along with two other ancient monuments nearby, West Kennett Long Barrow and Silbury Hill (an enormous manmade mound—the largest in Europe), but clearly he couldn’t protect every worthy thing that grew threatened, so he began to press for legislation to safeguard historic treasures. Realizing this ambition was not nearly as straightforward as common sense would suggest it ought to be, because the ruling Tories under Benjamin Disraeli saw it as an egregious assault on property rights. The idea of giving a government functionary the right to come onto the land of a person of superior caste and start telling him how to manage his estate was preposterous—outrageous. Lubbock persevered, however, and in 1882, under the new Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone, he managed to push through Parliament the Ancient Monuments Protection Act—a landmark piece of legislation if ever there was one. Because ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
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The noun benjamin disraeli has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield ::: (British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881))
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Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield
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=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
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--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun benjamin_disraeli
1 sense of benjamin disraeli
Sense 1
Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield
INSTANCE OF=> statesman, solon, national leader
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Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield
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