Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 4

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• Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Respect, Mean, Respectability

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• All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fall, Race, Blood

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• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

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  Imagination, Politics, Opponents

  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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• Everything comes if a man will only wait.

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  Patience, Hope, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3352, Delphi Classics

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• Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

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  Beautiful, Long Ago, Hands

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.143

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• Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

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  Happiness, Simple, Principles

  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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• Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

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  Art, Truth, Honesty

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1865). ““Church and Queen.” Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].”, p.72

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• There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

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  Affection, Appreciated, Lost

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3998, Delphi Classics

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• Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

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  Bullying, Fake People, Army

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

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• When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

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  Men, Energy, Want

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2404, Delphi Classics

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• It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

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  Country, Europe, Secret

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• Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

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  Perseverance, Two, Quality

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• One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

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  Honesty, World, Helpful

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• The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

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  War, Race, Differences

  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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• Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

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  Two, Silence, Ears

  Benjamin Disraeli (1837). “Works”, p.324

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• Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

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  Men, Political, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.786, Delphi Classics

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• The world is governed by personalities very different to what people
  that cannot see further than their eyes, believe

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  Believe, Eye, People

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• I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

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  Inspirational, Hope, Planning

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1833). “The Wondrous Tale of Alroy: The Rise of Iskander”, p.61

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• The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

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  Art, Stubborn, Matter

  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 disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

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  Time, Disappointment, Failure

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.618, BoD – Books on Demand

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• When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

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  Men, World, Retiring

  'Lothair' (1870) ch. 28

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• Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

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  Two, Gentleman, Consideration

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• Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

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  Life Is Too Short, Imagination, Littles

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• He who gains time gains everything.

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  Inspirational, Gains, Time Management

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.174

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• There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

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  Sin, Exaggeration, Greater

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1831). “The Young Duke: "a Moral Tale, Though Gay"”, p.234

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