Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 20

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• The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Children, Ignorance, Horizon

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2510, Delphi Classics

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• What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Strong, Heart, School

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.181

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• There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Reason Why, Should, Schemes

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Anne Elizabeth Forester Stanhope Chesterfield (Countess of), Selina Louisa Forester Bridgeman Bradford (countess of), Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Zetland (Marquis of) (1929). “1876 to 1881”

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• A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

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  Struggle, Sacrifice, Influence

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

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• No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

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  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  "Disraeli and his Day". Book by Sir William Fraser, 1891.

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• A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Errors, Practice

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• The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

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  Success, Discipline, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.26

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• Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Religion, Christianity, Judaism

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.130

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• No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Messages, Last Words, Ask Me

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• The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fog, People, Graves

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• Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Marriage, Husband, Cases

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• I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Talking, Luck, Grammar

  Said while correcting proofs of his last Parliamentary speech, 31 March 1881, in Robert Blake 'Disraeli' (1966) ch. 32

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• It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!

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  Science, Discovery, Eggs

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.331

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• A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

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  Men, Careers, Two

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.836, Delphi Classics

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• The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

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  Clothes, Gentleman, Conservative

  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: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Army, Noble, Causes

  Speech in the House of Commons, April, 1844.

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• We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

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  Art, Book, Reading

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.245

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• And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

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  Men, Thinking, Style

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• There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

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  Character, Voice, Political

  Tancred Bk II, Ch. I

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• The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Doctrine, Genius

  Benjamin Disraeli (1904). “Endymion”

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• The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Europe, America, England

  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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• Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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  Real, Distribution Of Power, Political

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

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• I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

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  Use, Motto, Turns

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.397

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• There is no gambling like politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Gambling, Political, Politics

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

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• Beauty can inspire miracles.

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  Beauty, Miracle, Inspire

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.73

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