Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 14

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• Departure should be sudden.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Departure, Should, Parting

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• A person's fate is their own temper.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fate, Temper, Temperament

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• Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

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  Intelligent, Political, Mediocrity

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.104

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• Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

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  Observation, Acquire

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.78

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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.

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  Powerful, Pride, Men

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

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• No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

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  Writing, Discovery, Language

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.17

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• Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

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  Change, History, Historical

  'Hansard' 1 May 1865, col. 1246

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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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  Stars, Light, Way

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• Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

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  Men, Modern, Natural

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5033, Delphi Classics

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• London; a nation, not a city.

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  Cities, London, Nations

  'Lothair' (1870) ch. 27

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• No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

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  Sleep, Luxury, Adventurous

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.405, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

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  Political, Phrases, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• The canter is a cure for every evil.

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  Horse, Evil, Equestrian

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• 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.

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  Kings, Talking, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• Nature is stronger than education.

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  Education, Nature, Science

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• Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

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  Party, Tools, Done

  c.1874 Letter.

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• Turtle makes all men equal.

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  Men, Turtles, Appetite

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4011, Delphi Classics

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• Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

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  Love, Heartbreak, Sarcastic

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.119

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• 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.

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  Two Nations, Law, People

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.283

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• As for our majority... one is enough.

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  Political, Majority, Politics

  "Endymion". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 64, 1880.

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• Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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  Life, Inspire, Easy

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5019, Delphi Classics

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• Finality is not the language of politics.

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  Political, Politics, Language

  'Hansard' 28 February 1859

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• We moralize among ruins.

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  Ruins, Morality

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.257

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• Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

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  Book, Nine, Nonsense

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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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  Life, Time, Two Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

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