Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 6

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• As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Success, Congratulations

  "Set course: Information management" by Miles Brignall, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Country, School

  'Hansard' 15 June 1874, col. 1618

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• Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Rothschild, World, Lord

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• Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Political, Feelings

  Sybil bk. 2, ch. 5 (1845) See Kerner 1

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• Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mistake, Sometimes, Nonsense

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.184

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• When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wise, Men, Trying

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• Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Two Nations, Welfare Programs

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.315

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• Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Respect, Character, Reality

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• The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Differences, Special, Genius

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• Everything in this world depends upon will.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  World, This World, Depends

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4161, Delphi Classics

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• Life is too short to be little.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Life, Littles

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.255

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• An obedient wife commands her husband.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Husband, Wife, Command

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

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• All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Character, Men, Thinking

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.114, London : H. Colburn

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• Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Christianity, Judaism

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• Small things affects small minds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mind, Small Minds, Small Things

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• Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Mind, Wish

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3039, Delphi Classics

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• A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Parsimony, Brevity, Prodigals

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1860). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.360

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• There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Economics, Economy, Efficiency

  "Our future energy strategy cannot depend on renewables alone" by John Hayes, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2012.

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• There is no wisdom like frankness.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Frankness

  Benjamin Disraeli (1974). “Sybil”, p.251, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Travel teaches toleration.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Travel, Journey

  Benjamin Disraeli (2004). “Contarini Fleming”

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• Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Communication, Support, Decay

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• For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Jobs, War

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Grey de Wilton, October 3, 1873.

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• I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Government, Order

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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• Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Preparation, Progress

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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• Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Generations, Vanishing

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.305

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