Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 19

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• What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

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  Inspiration, Men, Competition

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• I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

  Benjamin Disraeli

  1868 On becoming Prime Minister.

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• An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

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  Country, Powerful, Fog

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4039, Delphi Classics

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• It is the lot of man to suffer.

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  Men, Suffering

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

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  Time, Men, Race

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• I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.

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  Government, Discipline, Political

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• A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

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  Food, Men, Cooking

  The Young Duke bk. 1, ch. 14 (1831)

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• He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

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  Life, Anticipation, Century

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.331, Delphi Classics

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• She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

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  Sex, Memories, Greek

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.20, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

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  Ideas, Accepting, Ready

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• Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

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  Angel, Men, Apes

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

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• I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

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  Time

  Benjamin Disraeli (1872). “Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography”, p.13, Transaction Publishers

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• The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

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  Time, Military, Fool

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• Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

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  Im Sorry, Apology, Apologizing

  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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• Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

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  Inspiration, Competition, Emulation

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.77

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• You have proved it is a very moral habit.

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  Smoking, Moral, Habit

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• What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.

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  Beautiful, Art, Science

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113

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• What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

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  Science, Fire, Discovery

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.17

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• The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

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  Religious, Atheist, Kissing

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• No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.

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  Men, Energy, May

  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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• The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

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  Clothes, Gentleman, Caught

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, February 28, 1845.

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• We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

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  Treason, Sacrilege

  'Hansard' 27 February 1871

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• The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

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  Done, Said, Remembered

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil: Or, The Two Nations”, p.13

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

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  Believe, Quality, Links

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

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• It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England.

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  Country, Determination, People

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Lords, February 20, 1877.

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