Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• 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

  Art, Memories, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

• 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

  Perseverance, Two, Quality

• The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Success, Discipline, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.26

• If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Reading, Knowledge, Historical

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.17

• You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Courage, Intelligent, Political

  "Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury, Vol. 2: 1868-1880". Book by Gwendolen Cecil, 1921.

• Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Perseverance, Moving, Two

• This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Errors, Quality, Bishops

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Quality, Links

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2253, Delphi Classics

• I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Class, Community, Quality

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.157, London : H. Colburn

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