Benjamin Disraeli quotes
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“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
-- Benjamin DisraeliSource : "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.
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“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
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“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
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“Never complain and never explain.”
-- Benjamin DisraeliSource : In J. Morley 'The Life of William Ewart Gladstone' (1903) vol. 1, p. 123.
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“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”
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“Nurture your mind with great thoughts”
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“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”
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“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.”
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“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”
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“There is no education like adversity.”
-- Benjamin DisraeliSource : Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”
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“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
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“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
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“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
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“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
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“What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”
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“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.”
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“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”
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“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.”
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“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 DisraeliSource : Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.375, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”
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“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
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“Great countries are those that produce great people.”
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“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.”
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“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”
-- Benjamin DisraeliSource : Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics
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“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”
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“Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.”
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“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.”
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“The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”
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“Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.”
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“Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”
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“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.”
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“Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.”
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“The essence of education is the education of the body.”
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“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”
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“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
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“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”
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“To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.”
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“A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.”
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“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.”
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“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
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“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.”
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“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”
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“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
-- Benjamin DisraeliSource : Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain in his 'Autobiography' (1924) vol. 1, p. 246
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“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”
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“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
-- Benjamin DisraeliSource : Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2513, Delphi Classics
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“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”
-- Benjamin DisraeliSource : Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics
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“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 fervor.”
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“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
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“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”
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“Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.”
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“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”
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“War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.”
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“Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.”
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“In politics, nothing is contemptible.”
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“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”
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“I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.”
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“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.”
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“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.”
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“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”
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“Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.”
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“Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.”
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“Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.”
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“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.”
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“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
-- Benjamin DisraeliSource : Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Contarini Fleming, v. 2. Count Alarcos. Popanilla”
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“Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.”
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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
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“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”
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“Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.”
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“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.”
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“People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.”
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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”
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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
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“An obedient wife commands her husband.”
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“I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.”
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“How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”
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“Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.”
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“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”
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“Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”
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“Finality is not the language of politics.”
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“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.”
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“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
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“Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.”
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“There can be economy only where there is efficiency.”
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“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”
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“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”
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“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.”
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“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.”
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“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.”
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