Quotes About Benjamin Disraeli

#1. The secret of success in life: Prepare for opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli

Dan Millman

#2. Books," says E. P. Whipple, "are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time." "As a rule," said Benjamin Disraeli, "the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. Justice is truth in action.

~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

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#4. Adventures are to the adventurous.
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Marlene Chabot

#5. 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

#6. Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts. - BENJAMIN DISRAELI

John C. Maxwell

#7. The secret of success is constancy of purpose. - BENJAMIN DISRAELI

William Bill Damon

#8. As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

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#9. Every woman should marry ... and no man.

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#10. To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

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#11. Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

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

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#13. Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

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#14. Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

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#15. Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

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#16. I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

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#17. Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

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#18. Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

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#19. Departures should be sudden.

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#20. A person's fate is their own temper.

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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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#23. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

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#24. Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

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#25. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

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#26. The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

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#27. Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

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#28. Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

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#29. I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

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#30. 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.

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#31. London is a modern Babylon.

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#32. How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

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#33. 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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#34. In politics experiments means revolutions.

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

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#36. Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

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#37. Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

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#38. Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

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#39. 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.

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#40. Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

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#41. London; a nation, not a city.

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#42. Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

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#43. 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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#44. There is moderation even in excess.

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#45. He who gains time gains everything.

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#46. The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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#47. 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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#48. Party is organized opinion.

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#49. The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

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#50. A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

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#51. No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

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#52. If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

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#53. Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life.

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

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#55. 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.

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#56. All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

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#57. The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

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#58. 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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#59. My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

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#60. Little things affect little minds.

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#61. 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.

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#62. No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

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#63. Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

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#64. 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.

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#65. The gondola of London [a hansom].

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#66. The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

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#67. 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.

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#68. We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

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#69. I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

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#70. What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

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#71. With words we govern men.

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

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#73. When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

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#74. It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

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#75. A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

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#76. 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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#77. There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

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#78. A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

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#79. What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

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#80. There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

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#81. A man's fate is his own temper.

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#82. 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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#83. Be thine own privy counsellor.

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#84. An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

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#85. Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

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#86. 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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#87. Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

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#88. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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#89. Nature is stronger than education.

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#90. The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

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#91. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

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#92. I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

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#93. Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

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#94. Great men never require experience.

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#95. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

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

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#97. There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

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#98. I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

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#99. All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

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#100. That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

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