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We moralize among ruins. Benjamin Disraeli - Morality
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. Benjamin Disraeli - Circumstance
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli - Inhibition
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. Benjamin Disraeli - Compromise
On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends. Benjamin Disraeli - Education
We make our fortunes and we call them fate. Benjamin Disraeli - Fate
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. Benjamin Disraeli - Destiny
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. Benjamin Disraeli - Success
Travel teaches tolerance. Benjamin Disraeli - Tolerance
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. Benjamin Disraeli - Truth
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli - Opportunity
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 - Worry
Man is more powerful than matter. Benjamin Disraeli - Circumstance
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 neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. Benjamin Disraeli - Neighbors
Great countries are those that produce great people. Benjamin Disraeli - Nations
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli - Love
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. Benjamin Disraeli - Parliament
Protection is not a principle but an expedient. Benjamin Disraeli - Trade
It is the lot of man to suffer. Benjamin Disraeli - Suffering
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. Benjamin Disraeli - Opinions
Justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli - Justice
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. Benjamin Disraeli - Agents
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world. Benjamin Disraeli - Leaders and Leadership
A majority is always better than the best repartee. Benjamin Disraeli - Politicians and Politics
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. Benjamin Disraeli - Expediency
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. Benjamin Disraeli - Politicians and Politics
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. Benjamin Disraeli - Cities and City Life
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth. Benjamin Disraeli - Silence
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. Benjamin Disraeli - Value
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. Benjamin Disraeli - Enthusiasm
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. Benjamin Disraeli - Books and Reading
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. Benjamin Disraeli - Nations
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them. Benjamin Disraeli - Politicians and Politics
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Benjamin Disraeli - Assassination
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. Benjamin Disraeli - Nature
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. Benjamin Disraeli - Greatness
Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the people. Benjamin Disraeli - Power
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. Benjamin Disraeli - Age and Aging
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. Benjamin Disraeli - Heroes and Heroism
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools. Benjamin Disraeli - Politicians and Politics
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. Benjamin Disraeli - Youth
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. Benjamin Disraeli - Enthusiasm
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. Benjamin Disraeli - Planning
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. Benjamin Disraeli - Education
Youth is the trustee of prosperity. Benjamin Disraeli - Youth
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 wondrous age of change and progress. Benjamin Disraeli - Inspiration
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 - Liberals
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli - Preparation
Change is inevitable. Change is constant. Benjamin Disraeli - Change
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Benjamin Disraeli - Facts
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 - Frankness
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. Benjamin Disraeli - Courage
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli - Statistics
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. Benjamin Disraeli - Civilization
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli - Law and Lawyers
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Benjamin Disraeli - Grief
Finality is not the language of politics. Benjamin Disraeli - Politicians and Politics
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli - Politicians and Politics
Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli - Age and Aging
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are. Benjamin Disraeli - Speakers and Speaking
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. Benjamin Disraeli - Tact and Tactfulness
There is no wisdom like frankness. Benjamin Disraeli - Candor
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. Benjamin Disraeli - Youth
There is no education like adversity. Benjamin Disraeli - Education
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. Benjamin Disraeli - Character
A person's fate is their own temper. Benjamin Disraeli - Temperament
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. Benjamin Disraeli - Politicians and Politics
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. Benjamin Disraeli - Critics and Criticism
Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation. Benjamin Disraeli - Plagiarism
Amusement to an observing mind is study. Benjamin Disraeli - Amusement
The secret to success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli - Purpose
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. Benjamin Disraeli - Alliances
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions. Benjamin Disraeli - Greatness
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate. Benjamin Disraeli - Opposition
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. Benjamin Disraeli - Country
''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. Benjamin Disraeli - Candor
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. Benjamin Disraeli - Truth
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. Benjamin Disraeli - Liberals
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. Benjamin Disraeli - Science and Scientists
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. Benjamin Disraeli - Candor
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli - Expectation
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli - Friends and Friendship
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. Benjamin Disraeli - Bores and Boredom
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Benjamin Disraeli - Health
The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories. Benjamin Disraeli - Evolution
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. Benjamin Disraeli - Humankind
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. Benjamin Disraeli - Genius
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. Benjamin Disraeli - Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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. Benjamin Disraeli - Religion
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. Benjamin Disraeli - Education
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. Benjamin Disraeli - Mediocrity
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. Benjamin Disraeli - Anecdotes
Duty cannot exist without faith. Benjamin Disraeli - Duty
Despair is the conclusion of fools. Benjamin Disraeli - Doubt
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. Benjamin Disraeli - Determination
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. Benjamin Disraeli - Circumstance
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. Benjamin Disraeli - Politicians and Politics
Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli - Mediocrity
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. Benjamin Disraeli - Character
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. Benjamin Disraeli - Biography
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. Benjamin Disraeli - Books and Reading
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 equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world. Benjamin Disraeli - Peace
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. Benjamin Disraeli - Politicians and Politics
Silence is the mother of truth. Benjamin Disraeli - Silence
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. Benjamin Disraeli - Life and Living
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. Benjamin Disraeli - Consistency
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. Benjamin Disraeli - Learning
There can be economy only where there is efficiency. Benjamin Disraeli - Economy and Economics
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing. Benjamin Disraeli - Christians and Christianity
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. Benjamin Disraeli - Explanations
Genius, when young, is divine. Benjamin Disraeli - Genius
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli - Travel and Tourism
Everything comes if a man will only wait. Benjamin Disraeli - Cycles
The secret of success is consistency of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli - Success
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. Benjamin Disraeli - Ideas
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. Benjamin Disraeli - Love
It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being. Benjamin Disraeli - Marriage
A precedent embalms a principle. Benjamin Disraeli - Tradition
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. Benjamin Disraeli - News
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. Benjamin Disraeli - Writers and Writing
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. Benjamin Disraeli - Tact and Tactfulness
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. Benjamin Disraeli - Public Opinion
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. Benjamin Disraeli - Sincerity
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli - Agreement
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? Benjamin Disraeli - Leaders and Leadership
To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli - Ignorance
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. Benjamin Disraeli - Will and Will Power
Damn your principals. Stick to your party. Benjamin Disraeli - Unity
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. Benjamin Disraeli - Management
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. Benjamin Disraeli - Inequality
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. Benjamin Disraeli - Thoughts and Thinking
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Disraeli - Desperation
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. Benjamin Disraeli - Purpose
Success is the child of audacity. Benjamin Disraeli - Success
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. Benjamin Disraeli - Fame
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. Benjamin Disraeli - Learning
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli - Critics and Criticism
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli - Action
He has not a single redeeming defect. Benjamin Disraeli - Faults
In politics, nothing is contemptible. Benjamin Disraeli - Politicians and Politics
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. Benjamin Disraeli - Royalty
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. Benjamin Disraeli - Quotations
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraeli - Truth
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Benjamin Disraeli - Reason
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. Benjamin Disraeli - Manners
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