Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 14

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• Every moment is travel - if understood.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Travel, Moments, Understood

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.86

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• London; a nation, not a city.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Cities, London, Nations

  'Lothair' (1870) ch. 27

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• The canter is a cure for every evil.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Horse, Evil, Equestrian

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• The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Phrases, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

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  Kings, Talking, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• Nature is stronger than education.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Nature, Science

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Tools, Done

  c.1874 Letter.

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• Turtle makes all men equal.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Turtles, Appetite

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4011, Delphi Classics

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• Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Change, History, Historical

  'Hansard' 1 May 1865, col. 1246

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• It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Stars, Light, Way

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• As for our majority... one is enough.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Majority, Politics

  "Endymion". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 64, 1880.

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• I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

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  Two Nations, Law, People

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.283

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• Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Nine, Nonsense

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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 wondrous age of change and progress.

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  Change, Should Have, Progress

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3719, Delphi Classics

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• Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

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  Love, Heartbreak, Sarcastic

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.119

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• Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Inspire, Easy

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5019, Delphi Classics

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• Finality is not the language of politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Language

  'Hansard' 28 February 1859

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• We moralize among ruins.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Ruins, Morality

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.257

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• But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Time, Two Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

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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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  Fashion, Passion, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.223, London : H. Colburn

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• Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

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  Happiness, Grief, Grieving

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.378, Delphi Classics

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• Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, History, Christianity

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• The unfortunate are always egotistical.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Egotistical, Egotism, Unfortunate

  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”

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• Protection is not a principle but an expedient

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Principles, Protection

  'Hansard' 17 March 1845

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• You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

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  Morning, Book, Library

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