Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 8

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• I say that justice is truth in action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Truth, Justice, Political

  'Hansard' 11 February 1851

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• Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Preparation, Progress

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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• The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Incense, Fool, Praise

  Benjamin Disraeli (1833). “Vivian Grey”, p.205

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• Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Honor, Literature

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• Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beauty, Source, Source Of Happiness

  Benjamin Disraeli (1976). “The Works: Lothair ; 1”

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• We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

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  Inspirational, Life, Fate

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Alroy: A Romance”, p.81

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• Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Christianity, Neighbor, Modern

  Benjamin Disraeli (1872). “Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• Man is more powerful than matter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Men, Matter

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.377, Delphi Classics

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• Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational Life, History, Biographies

  Contarini Fleming pt. 1, ch. 23 (1832) See RalphWaldo Emerson 11

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• For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Jobs, War

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Grey de Wilton, October 3, 1873.

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• Man is only great when he acts from passion.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wise, Wisdom, Passion

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

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• Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Generations, Vanishing

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.305

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• Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Potters, Human Nature

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.338

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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.

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  Beautiful, Art, Men

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

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• Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Christianity, Judaism

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• Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Views, Data, Turns

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.173

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• Fear makes us feel our humanity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fear, Fearless, Humanity

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.147, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Leadership, People, Vision

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• Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

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  Inspirational, Travel, Memorable

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.481, Delphi Classics

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• Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Remember

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Stanhope, July 17, 1870.

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• The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

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  World, Wheels, Rounds

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

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• Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

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  Wise, Law, May

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

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• We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Self, Play

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• We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Destiny, Fortune

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• Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Mind, Wish

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3039, Delphi Classics

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