Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 13

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• Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Religion, Incidents, Should

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.71

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• 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.

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  Believe, Fate, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.472, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

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  Doubt, Criticism, Elements

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1864). “Church policy: a speech delivered by the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P. at a meeting of the Oxford Diocesan Society for the Augmentation of Small Livings, in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, Nov. 25, 1864, etc”, p.17

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• Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

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  Funny, Political, Politics

  To Matthew Arnold, in G. W. E. Russell 'Collections and Recollections' (1898) ch. 23

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• 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.

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  Friends, Men, Doe

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1866). “The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Venetia. Tancred”

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Men, World

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

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• 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.

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  Art, Memories, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

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• I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

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  Gentleman, Printing, Presses

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Law, Church

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.130

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• Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

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  Inspirational, Intelligent, Enthusiasm For Life

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.213

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• 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.

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  Men, Light, Darkness

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

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  Sarcastic, Work, Ignorance

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 4, ch. 5.

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• 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.

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  Health, Men, Fruition

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.96, London : H. Colburn

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• The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

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  Care, Firsts, Duty

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• It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

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  Business, Party, Men

  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: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• 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.

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  Class, Gossip, East

  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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• 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.

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  Powerful, Men, People

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Printing Trade Festival, 1845.

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• All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

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  Sound, Paradise, Eating

  'The Young Duke' (1831) bk. 1, ch. 10

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• Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

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  Successful, Triumph, Alliances

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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• Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

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  Country, Independent, Colony

  'Hansard' 5 February 1863

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• To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

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  Youth, Fortune, Young

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.4

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• To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

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  Mother, Children, Childhood

  Benjamin Disraeli (1864). “Venetia”, p.210

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• 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.

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  Time, Suffering, Age

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

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• As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

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  Money, Passion, Ambition

  Benjamin Disraeli (1859). “Henrietta Temple a Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli”, p.340

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• He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

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  Horse, Thinking, Packs

  'Hansard' 3 June 1862

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