Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 19

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• Party is organized opinion.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Politics, Opinion

  Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

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• The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Attitude, Men, Bunch

  "Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli".

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• 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

  Inspiration, Men, Competition

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• I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

  Benjamin Disraeli

  1868 On becoming Prime Minister.

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• An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Powerful, Fog

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4039, Delphi Classics

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• It is the lot of man to suffer.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Suffering

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

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• Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Men, Race

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• 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

  Government, Discipline, Political

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• 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

  Strong, Heart, School

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.181

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• Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Religion, Christianity, Judaism

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

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• The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Science, Scientist, Pursuit

  1870 Lothair, ch.17.

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• He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Anticipation, Century

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.331, Delphi Classics

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• The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Military, Fool

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• Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Angel, Men, Apes

  Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

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• 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

  Believe, Science, Discovery

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.70

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Style

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• I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Use, Motto, Turns

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.397

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• Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Gentleman

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1968). “Disraeli: Speech at the Banquet of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, at the Crystal Palace, on June 24, 1872. Rede Im Kristallpalast Am 24 Juni 1872”

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• 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

  Errors, Quality, Bishops

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

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• 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

  Fate, People, Bishops

  "Lord Beaconsfield". Book by James Anthony Froude, 1890.

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• I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

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  Believe, Quality, Links

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2253, Delphi Classics

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• Change is constant in a progressive country.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Change, Country

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• The gondola of London [a hansom].

  Benjamin Disraeli

  London, Gondolas

  'Lothair' (1870) ch. 27 (a hansom cab)

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• The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Doctrine, Genius

  Benjamin Disraeli (1904). “Endymion”

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• A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Advice, Matter, Want

  'Lothair' (1870) ch. 27

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