Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 21

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Destiny

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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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• London is a roost for every bird.

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  Bird, London, Roost

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”

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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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• Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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  Real, Distribution Of Power, Political

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

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• The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

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  Civilization, Tendencies, Monarchy

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• I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

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  Class, Community, Quality

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.157, London : H. Colburn

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• In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

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  Art, Children, Justice

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1154, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

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  Character, Voice, Political

  Tancred Bk II, Ch. I

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• Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Criticism, Authorship

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.81

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

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  Twilight, Despair, Midnight

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.106

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• A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

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  Food, Men, Cooking

  The Young Duke bk. 1, ch. 14 (1831)

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• You have proved it is a very moral habit.

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  Smoking, Moral, Habit

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• What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.

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  Beautiful, Art, Science

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113

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