Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Pain, Party, Gay

• That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Flirting, House

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

• A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Careers, Two

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.836, Delphi Classics

• No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  "Disraeli and his Day". Book by Sir William Fraser, 1891.

• This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Race, Years, House

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lady Londonderry, February 22, 1854.

• 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

  Civilization, Dwelling, House

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1884). “Lord Beaconsfield on the Constitution: "What is He?" and "A Vindication of the English Constitution"”

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