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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Benjamin Disraeli

British politician and author [Prime Minister of the UK from February 20, 1874 to April 21, 1880]

Nationality: British
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Birth: 1804-1881
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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
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'Frank and explicit'' - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
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There is no wisdom like frankness.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
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Man is more powerful than matter.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
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Duty cannot exist without faith.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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There is no education like adversity.
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On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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Genius, when young, is divine.
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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
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A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this
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Justice is truth in action.
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
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To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Little things affect little minds.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Great countries are those that produce great people.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as
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Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilib
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
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In politics, nothing is contemptible.
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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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It is the lot of man to suffer.
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Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
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Travel teaches tolerance.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
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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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An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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