Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 9

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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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• The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

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  Israel, Views, Heaven

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5014, Delphi Classics

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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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• We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

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  Destiny, Fortune

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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.

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  Passion, Self, Play

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• The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

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  Adventure, Tree, Fruit

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4373, Delphi Classics

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• Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

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  Inspirational, Years, Events

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1976, Delphi Classics

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• Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.

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  Europe, Names, Two

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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.

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  Political, Mind, Wish

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

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• Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

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  Silence, Speech, Judgment

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5034, Delphi Classics

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• I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

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  Trust, Spring, Exercise

  'Vivian Grey' (1826) bk. 6, ch. 7

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• I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

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  Wine, Bored, So Bored

  "Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 1, 1845.

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• Duty cannot exist without faith

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  Duty

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.139

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• Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

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  Men, Remember, Sometimes

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• I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

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  Pages, Blank, New Testament

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• Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

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  Destiny, Bears

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.230

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• Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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  Nature, Men, Sometimes

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.347, London : H. Colburn

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• You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

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  Art, Criticism, Literature

  "The Sayings of Disraeli".

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• The essence of education is the education of the body.

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  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.137

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• Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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  Magnificence, Splendor, Wealth

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “The young duke. Count Alarcos”

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• I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

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  Time, Ethos, Forget

  Said to Lord Esher of his relations with Queen Victoria, in Elizabeth Longford 'Victoria R. I' (1964) ch. 27

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• Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

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  Change, Resistance, Inexorable

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• Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

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  Sister, Sweet, Brother

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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• With words we govern men.

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  Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.90

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• I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

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  Success, Lasts

  Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Memorials of Lord Beaconsfield Reprinted Fron: With a Portrait”

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