Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 4

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• Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Truth, Learning, History

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• Everything comes if a man will only wait.

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  Patience, Hope, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3352, Delphi Classics

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• As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

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  Money, Wealth, Ought

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4161, Delphi Classics

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• Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

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  Music, People, Locked Up

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• The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

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  War, Race, Differences

  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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• Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

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  Respect, Mean, Respectability

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• I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

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  Passion, Government, Order

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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• The greatest of all evils is a weak government

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  Government, Evil, Weak Government

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.242, London : H. Colburn

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• People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

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  Adversity, People, Defeated

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• To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

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  Class, Community, Protection

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

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  Bullying, Fake People, Army

  Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Young duke and Count Alarcos”

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• It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

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  Country, Europe, Secret

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• All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

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  Character, Men, Thinking

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.114, London : H. Colburn

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• A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

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  Greatness, Mind, Generations

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• Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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  Positive, Perseverance, Determination

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• Difficulties melt away under tact.

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  Difficulty, Tact

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.86

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• All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

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  Fall, Race, Blood

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• A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

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  Government, Hypocrisy, Political

  'Hansard' 17 March 1845, col. 1028. Bagehot, quoting Disraeli in 'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords', elaborated on the theme with the words 'so much did the ideas of its "head" differ from the sensations of its "tail".'

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• Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

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  Perseverance, Two, Quality

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• Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

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  Art, Truth, Honesty

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1865). ““Church and Queen.” Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].”, p.72

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• There is no wisdom like frankness.

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  Frankness

  Benjamin Disraeli (1974). “Sybil”, p.251, Prabhat Prakashan

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• A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

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  Parsimony, Brevity, Prodigals

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1860). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.360

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• To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

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  Education, Knowledge, Intelligent

  "Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 5, 1845.

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• When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

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  Men, Energy, Want

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2404, Delphi Classics

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• Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

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  Fear, Intelligent, Speech

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