Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 20

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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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Reading, Knowledge, Historical

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

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• Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

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  Dancing, Ballet, Carriages

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.99

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• It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England.

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  Country, Determination, People

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Lords, February 20, 1877.

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• That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

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  Life, Thinking, Firsts

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.40

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

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  Life, Anticipation, Century

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

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• The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

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  Children, Ignorance, Horizon

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2510, Delphi Classics

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• She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

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  Sex, Memories, Greek

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.20, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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

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  Angel, Men, Apes

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

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• The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

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  Sweet, Simplicity, Three

  'Endymion' (1880) ch. 91.

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• We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

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  Leadership, People, Age

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

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• A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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  Book, Classic, Acquaintance

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4093, Delphi Classics

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• You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

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  Volcanoes, Flames, Exhausted

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

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• All is race - there is no other truth.

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  Race

  Benjamin Disraeli, Melvin George Wiebe (2009). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1860-1864”, p.80, University of Toronto Press

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Believe, Science, Discovery

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

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• Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

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  Justice, Hypocrisy, Envy

  c.1874 Letter.

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• A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

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  Science, Invention, Fixed

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

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  Destiny

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

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  Men, Doctrine, Genius

  Benjamin Disraeli (1904). “Endymion”

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

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  Use, Motto, Turns

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

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• This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.

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  Race, Years, House

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lady Londonderry, February 22, 1854.

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• Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.

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  Party, Believe, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4977, Delphi Classics

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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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