Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 20

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• If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

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  Growth, Credit, Plant

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• My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

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  Ideas, Accepting, Ready

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• I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

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  Time

  Benjamin Disraeli (1872). “Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography”, p.13, Transaction Publishers

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• London is a roost for every bird.

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  Bird, London, Roost

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”

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• The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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  Science, Scientist, Pursuit

  1870 Lothair, ch.17.

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• I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.

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  Holiday, Revelations, Great Confidence

  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 Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

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  Religious, Atheist, Kissing

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• You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

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  Listening, Unions, Habit

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• Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

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  Religion, Christianity, Judaism

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

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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.

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  Strong, Heart, School

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

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• Beauty can inspire miracles.

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  Beauty, Miracle, Inspire

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.73

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• There is no gambling like politics.

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  Gambling, Political, Politics

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

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• We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

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  Treason, Sacrilege

  'Hansard' 27 February 1871

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• Change is constant in a progressive country.

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  Life, Change, Country

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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.

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  Fate, People, Bishops

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

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• If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

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  Reading, Knowledge, Historical

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.17

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• A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

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  Men, Careers, Two

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.836, Delphi Classics

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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.

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  Errors, Quality, Bishops

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

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• You have proved it is a very moral habit.

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  Smoking, Moral, Habit

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• The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

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  Done, Said, Remembered

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil: Or, The Two Nations”, p.13

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• I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

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  Talking, Luck, Grammar

  Said while correcting proofs of his last Parliamentary speech, 31 March 1881, in Robert Blake 'Disraeli' (1966) ch. 32

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• Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

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  Destiny

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• The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

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  Army, Noble, Causes

  Speech in the House of Commons, April, 1844.

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• The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

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  Fog, People, Graves

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• Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

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  Marriage, Husband, Cases

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