Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 17

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• There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Economy, Efficiency

  Address to his Constituents, 1 October 1868, in 'The Times' 3 October 1868

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• Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Reading, Punctuation, Accents

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• Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Anxiety, Looks, Should

  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 characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Age, Characteristics, Craving

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

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• No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Enemy, Genius

  "Curiosities of Literature".

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• Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Science, Atmosphere

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.115

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• You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Years, Hours, Possession

  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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• What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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  Vices, Prison, Crime

  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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• To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

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  Boys, Careers, Ideals

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Law, Doe

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Printing Trade Festival, 1845.

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• No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, Brain, World

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• We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  England, Shopkeepers, Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.611, Delphi Classics

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• Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

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  Government, Affection, Bases

  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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• Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

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  Law, Age, Boots

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• There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Flirting, Young, Existence

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• England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sports, Two, England

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.13, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Science, Thinking

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.124

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• Books are the curse of the human race.

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  Book, Race, Curse

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.137

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• The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

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  Differences, Would Be, Politics

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• The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

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  Tortoises, Stags, Ought

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.255

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• The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, People, Paper

  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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• Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

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  Rights, Poverty, Duty

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• I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

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  Time, Believe, Maturity

  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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• Female friendships are of rapid growth.

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  Friendship, Growth, Female

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

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• The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Adversity, England, Nations

  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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