Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 10

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• An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Style, Posterity

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• 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

  Hair, Worry, Pulse

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• A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Sophisticated, Egotistical

  Referring to Gladstone in a speech at a banquet in The Duke of Wellington's Riding School, Knightsbridge, 27 July 1878: 'The Times' 29 July 1878

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• The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Political, Politics

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• London is a modern Babylon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  London, Modern, Babylon

  'Tancred' (1847) bk. 5, ch. 5

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• Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Political, Principles

  Attributed to Disraeli and believed to have been said to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in E. Latham 'Famous Sayings and their Authors' (1904) p. 11

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• When I want to read a novel, I write one.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiration, Reading, Writing

  In W. Monypenny and G. Buckle 'The Life of Benjamin Disraeli' vol. 6 (1920) ch. 17.

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• 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

  Angel, Men, Apes

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech at Oxford Diocesan conference, November 25, 1864.

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• Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Disappointment, Winning, Persistence

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• The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Society, Politics

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.438

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• You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the
  Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Europe, Intellectual, Movement

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.183

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• The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, World, Enthusiasm

  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”

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• 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

  Men, Islands, Race

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.169

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• He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.550, Delphi Classics

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• At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Peace, World, Capitalist

  Benjamin Disraeli (2009). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1860-1864”

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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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Order, Matter, Taste

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Principles, Politics, Trade

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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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Happiness, Health, People

  Speech, 24 July 1877

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• Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Community, May, Dignity

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5014, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Morning, Book, Library

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• Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Moderation, Divine

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• The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Democracies Have, Political, Historical

  "Lothair". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 17, 1870.

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• The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, People, World

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• More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Nonsense, Treaties

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4147, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Power, Tolerance

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