Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 18

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• Tobacco is the tomb of love.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Smoking, Tobacco, Tombs

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil: Or, The Two Nations”, p.139

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• 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.

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  Pain, Party, Gay

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• You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

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  Country, Church, May

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

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• The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

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  Believe, Greatness, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.88

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• If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

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  Attitude, Grief, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.818, Delphi Classics

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• Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

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  Principles, Politics, Motto

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics

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• The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

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  Girl, Mistake, Gay

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1881). “Wit and Wisdom”

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• The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

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  Civilization, Dwelling, House

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1884). “Lord Beaconsfield on the Constitution: "What is He?" and "A Vindication of the English Constitution"”

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• O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

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  Funny, Music, Art

  Benjamin Disraeli (1833). “Vivian Grey”, p.197

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• Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

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  Book, Reading, Men

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• Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."

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  Country, Rights, Views

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, May 14, 1850.

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Position

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• Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

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  Vehemence, Vehement, Careful

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.359

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• Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

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  Beautiful, Country, Ocean

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.392

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• 'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

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  Men, Political, Sound

  Coningsby bk. 2, ch. 6 (1844)

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• We cannot learn men from books.

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  Book, Men, Political

  Vivian Grey bk. 5, ch. 1 (1826)

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• Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

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  Mean, Men, Civilization

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

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• I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

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  Mother, Children, Book

  "Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of Glasgow Nov. 19, 1873".

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• Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

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  Merit, Plagiarism, Preservation

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.443

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• The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

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  Heart, Blood, Arrows

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• Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

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  Church, Aristocracy, Population

  'Hansard' 16 February 1844

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• The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

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  Originality, Treatment, Subjects

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.184

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• Party is organized opinion.

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  Party, Politics, Opinion

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

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• The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

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  Attitude, Men, Bunch

  "Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli".

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• Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

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  Cities, Wonderful, Manchester

  "Coningsby: Or, The New Generation".

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