Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 7

Quotes about:

• Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational Life, History, Biographies

  Contarini Fleming pt. 1, ch. 23 (1832) See RalphWaldo Emerson 11

  15 Copy quote

• Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Age, Aftermath

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4992, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

• The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Henrietta Temple: A Love Story".

  12 Copy quote

• 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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Art, Men

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

  7 Copy quote

• I say that justice is truth in action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Truth, Justice, Political

  'Hansard' 11 February 1851

  11 Copy quote

• Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.377, Delphi Classics

  16 Copy quote

• I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Grew, Eloquence, Intoxicated

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Remember

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Stanhope, July 17, 1870.

  10 Copy quote

• No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Numbers, Government, Long

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.65

  9 Copy quote

• We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Self, Play

  8 Copy quote

• Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Europe, Names, Two

  25 Copy quote

• Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  World, Quitting, Forget You

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.405

  9 Copy quote

• London is a modern Babylon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  London, Modern, Babylon

  'Tancred' (1847) bk. 5, ch. 5

  8 Copy quote

• A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mistake, Men, Grandfather

  7 Copy quote

• Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Christianity, Neighbor, Modern

  Benjamin Disraeli (1872). “Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

  10 Copy quote

• A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Sophisticated, Egotistical

  Referring to Gladstone in a speech at a banquet in The Duke of Wellington's Riding School, Knightsbridge, 27 July 1878: 'The Times' 29 July 1878

  13 Copy quote

• The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Character, Facts, Sometimes

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3194, Delphi Classics

  10 Copy quote

• Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Travel, Memorable

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.481, Delphi Classics

  19 Copy quote

• The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wisdom, Art, Philosophy

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Contarini Fleming and The rise of Iskander”, p.276

  13 Copy quote

• If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Learning, People, Leader

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.389, London : D. Bryce

  10 Copy quote

• We are taught words, not ideas.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Ideas, Taught

  9 Copy quote

• We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Destiny, Fortune

  9 Copy quote

• A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Horse, Dark, Past

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.45, Gerald Duckworth & Co

  75 Copy quote

• Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

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

  14 Copy quote

• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Leadership, People, Vision

  8 Copy quote

Page 7 of 22

First

← Prev

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin