Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Political, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

• It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mistake, Party, Mean

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

• It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Business, Party, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

• 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

• Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Tools, Done

  c.1874 Letter.

• Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Political, Principles

  Attributed to Disraeli and believed to have been said to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in E. Latham 'Famous Sayings and their Authors' (1904) p. 11

• I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Believe, Government

  Speech at Manchester, 3 April 1872, in 'The Times' 4 April 1872

• You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Party, Government

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, August 30, 1848.

• There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Position

• Party is organized opinion.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Politics, Opinion

  Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

• Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Believe, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4977, Delphi Classics

• Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Gentleman

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1968). “Disraeli: Speech at the Banquet of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, at the Crystal Palace, on June 24, 1872. Rede Im Kristallpalast Am 24 Juni 1872”

• I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Pride, Ability

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