Quotes by
Benjamin Disraeli |
1804-1881 , British Prime Minister
British statesman and novelist of was of Italian-Jewish descent, who was twice prime minister (1868, 1874–80).He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or “Tory democracy”.
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Quotations
| • | There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. 23 |
| • | Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth. 12 |
| • | Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. 11 |
| • | I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. 11 |
| • | Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. 8 |
| • | Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. 7 |
| • | I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. 7 |
| • | Never take anything for granted. 7 |
| • | When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. 6 |
| • | The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. 6 |
| • | As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. 6 |
| • | What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. 5 |
| • | I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. 5 |
| • | Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. 5 |
| • | In a progressive country, change is constant… change is inevitable. 5 |
| • | There is no education like adversity. 5 |
| • | Never complain and never explain. 5 |
| • | Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. 5 |
| • | He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. 4 |
| • | Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. 4 |
| • | The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. 4 |
| • | Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. 4 |
| • | The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. 3 |
| • | Little things affect little minds. 3 |
| • | The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. 3 |
| • | My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. 3 |
| • | To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them. 3 |
| • | Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. 3 |
| • | Like all great travelers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. 3 |
| • | Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. 3 |
| • | A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man. 3 |
| • | At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. 2 |
| • | Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. 2 |
| • | If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality. 2 |
Personal Stories
| • | Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. 18 |
| • | Madam, I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New. (answer to Queen Victoria’s question “what is your real religion?”) 4 |
| • | When I want to read a novel, I write one. 2 |