Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

• You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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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.

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  Tags in Conceal, Frankness, Candor, Confuse, Mind

• Little things affect little minds.

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  Tags in Mediocrity, Little Things, Mind

• Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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  Tags in Nations, Independence, Nationality, Race, Miracle

• What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

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  Tags in Anticipation, Generally, Happens, Expect, Miscellaneous

• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

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• If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Grief, Society

  Tags in Gloomy, Stifled, Worse, Right, Himself, Looking

• Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Manners, Hard, Easy, Living

• Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

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  Tags in Royalty, Flattery, Come

• 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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  Tags in Enjoyment, Conservative, Caught, Himself, Clothes

• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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  Tags in Existence, Born, Principle

• My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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  Tags in Liberals, Objection, Practical, Introduction, Principles

• Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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

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• Finality is not the language of politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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  Tags in Finality, Language

• Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

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  Tags in Agony, Blunder, Best, Reality

• Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

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• The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

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  Tags in Humankind, Improvement, Appointed, Civilization

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

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  Tags in Forgetfulness, Convenient, Expediency, Nobody, Forgotten, Remember

• Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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  Tags in Seize, Fairness, Thing, Important

Benjamin Disraeli (202)

Birth:	21st December, 1804
Death:	19th April, 1881
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician, Prime Minister, Writer

About

Benjamin Disraeli played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is as of 2014 the only British Prime Minister of Jewish birth.

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