Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 16

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• Be thine own privy counsellor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Secrecy, Counsellors

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• Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

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  Friendship, Country, Men

  Speech at Guildhall, 9 November 1877, in 'The Times' 10 November 1877.

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• Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

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  Character, Feelings, Patriotism

  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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• The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

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  Discovery, Progress, Comfort

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• There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

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  Friendship, Memories, Heart

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5010, Delphi Classics

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• Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

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  Genius, Enthusiasm, Breaths

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• The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

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  Plato, Moving, Eye

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

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  Party, Pride, Ability

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• Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

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  Inspirational, Time, Teenage

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• Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

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  Time, Powerful

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.52

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• 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.

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  Men, Cities, Desire

  Benjamin Disraeli, Sheila Mary Smith (1981). “Sybil: or, the two nations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

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  Sympathy, Sorrow, Stronger

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3952, Delphi Classics

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• The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

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  Powerful, Power, Speakers

  Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion”

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• To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

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  Accomplishment, People, Despise

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• That fatal drollery called a representative government.

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  Government, Representatives, Representative Government

  'Tancred' (1847) bk. 2, ch. 13

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• A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Hands

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• The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

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  Lying, Moderation, Pleasure

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• England does not love coalitions.

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  Doe, England, Coalitions

  'Hansard' 16 December 1852

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

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  Country, Flirting, House

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

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• Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

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  Men, Eagles, Wings

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.80

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• The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

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  Noble, Debate, Lord

  'Hansard' 24 April 1844 (referring to Lord Stanley).

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• No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

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  Sleep, Luxury, Adventurous

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.405, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

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  Race, Miracle, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5020, Delphi Classics

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• Meditation is culture.

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  Meditation, Culture

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.338

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• Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

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  Country, Opposites, Delightful

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