Top 100 Disraeli's Quotes
#1. As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
Benjamin Disraeli
#3. To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you
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#5. Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
Benjamin Disraeli
#6. Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
Benjamin Disraeli
#7. Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.
Benjamin Disraeli
#8. Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin Disraeli
#9. I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.
Benjamin Disraeli
#10. Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli
#11. Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
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#14. Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli
#15. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
#16. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
#17. Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
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#19. The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.
Benjamin Disraeli
#20. Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
Benjamin Disraeli
#22. I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.
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#23. Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli
#25. How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
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#26. 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
#28. Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
Benjamin Disraeli
#29. Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.
Benjamin Disraeli
#30. Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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#32. It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.
Benjamin Disraeli
#33. Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.
Benjamin Disraeli
#35. Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
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#36. The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.
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#39. The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli
#40. There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.
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#42. The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.
Benjamin Disraeli
#44. No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
#45. If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.
Benjamin Disraeli
#46. Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life.
Benjamin Disraeli
#47. To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin Disraeli
#48. My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli
#49. All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.
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#50. The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
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#51. Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
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#52. My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
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#54. It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.
Benjamin Disraeli
#57. If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Benjamin Disraeli
#60. In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.
Benjamin Disraeli
#61. We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
Benjamin Disraeli
#63. What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.
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#65. Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
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#66. When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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#68. A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
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#69. No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
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#71. A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.
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#75. 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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#77. An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
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#78. Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.
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#79. The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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#80. Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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#81. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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#82. Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't ... out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
Oriana Fallaci
#84. You read what Disraeli had to say. I don't remember what he said. He said something. He's no longer with us.
Bob Dole
#85. The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
Benjamin Disraeli
#86. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli
#87. But to "settle" the Eastern Question was beyond even Disraeli's power - beyond, it seems, any human power, for it still haunts the world today.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#88. I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.
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#89. Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.
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#90. A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli
#91. There's three kinds of lies in this world:
There's lies ...
There's damned lies ...
And there's statistics
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#92. Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
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#93. Benjamin Disraeli had anticipated Erewhon's fears in his novel Coningsby: "The mystery of mysteries," he wrote, "is to view machines making machines, a spectacle that fills the mind with curious and even awful speculation.
Ronald Wright
#94. To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.
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#95. Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.
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#96. That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
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#97. As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.
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#98. I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.
David Levering Lewis
#99. Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.
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#100. The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.
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