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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Books
#Clever
#Existing
#Nonsense
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Leads
#Only
#Pursuit
#Science
Duty cannot exist without faith.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Cannot
#Duty
#Exist
#Faith
#Without
Great countries are those that produce great people.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Great People
#Great
#People
#Those
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Advantage
#Danger
#Fear
#Fears
#He
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Politics
#Possession
#Power
#Real
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Best
#Improvement
#Mankind
#Security
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Fatal
#Government
#Representative
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Courage
#Find
#Grow
#Life
#Will
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#May
#One Word
#Politics
#Practice
#Word
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Been
#Ever
#Opinion
#Revolutions
Genius, when young, is divine.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Divine
#Genius
#Young
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Independence
#Miracle
#Political
#Race
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Character
#Greater
#Sure
#Voice
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Increased
#Leisure
#Man
#Means
#Two
Adventures are to the adventurous.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Adventures
#Adventurous
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Advantage
#Class
#Community
#Protection
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
#Mind
#Others
#Own
#Right
#Wish
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Coming
#Men
#Something
#Tell
#Truth
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#He
#Man
#Right
#Successful
#Until
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Bad
#Children
#Her
#Mother
#Own
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Lie
#Life
#Moderation
#Pleasures
#Within
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Fame
#Health
#Life
#Men
#Power
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Always
#Best
#Better
#Majority
#Than
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Enthusiastic
#Most
#People
#World
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Least
#Merit
#Preservation
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Lose
#More
#Never
#Opportunity
#Powerful
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#House
#Man
#Speak
#Time
#Two
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
#Go
#Grief
#Looking
#Man
#Society
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Above
#Long
#Never
#Tell
#Unkind
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Convenient
#Forgotten
#Nobody
#Remember
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#About
#Less
#More
#Powerful
#Talked
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Done
#Knowledge
#Man
#Power
#Will
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Life
#Man
#Opportunity
#Ready
#Success
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Despise
#Either
#Must
#People
#Surpass
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#His
#Man
#Retire
#Sign
#World
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Explanations
#Life
#Like
#Time
#Waste
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Bloom
#God
#Hair
#Invisible
#Worry
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Always
#Error
#More
#True
#Truth
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Center
#Divine
#Human
#Meet
#Moderation
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Clever
#Should
#Very
#You
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Changed
#History
#Never
#World
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Beauty
#Elegance
#Teach
#Us
#Wealth
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Agreeable
#Idea
#Me
#Person
#Who
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Great
#King
#Life
#Politics
#Success
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Done
#Must
#Parties
#Things
#Tools
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Fashion
#Find
#Man
#Nothing
#Will
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#About
#Concern
#He
#I Am
#Treat
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Democracy
#Politicians
#Weary
#World
As for our majority... one is enough.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Enough
#Funny
#Majority
#Our
A precedent embalms a principle.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Precedent
#Principle
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Decay
#Must
#Nation
#Publicity
#Support
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Contradict
#Forget
#Never
#Sometimes
There is moderation even in excess.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Even
#Excess
#Moderation
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
#Business
#Life
#Political
#Politics
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Fear
#Most
#New
#People
#Step
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Character
#Sure
#Voice
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Genius
#Mediocrity
#Observe
#Talk
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Fit
#Fools
#Only
#Peace
#Wartime
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#He
#Idea
#Ignorance
#Only
#Wrong
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Day
#Moment
#Present
#Secret
#Upset
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Government
#Long
#Opposition
#Without
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Earth
#Heaven
#History
#View
#World
Finality is not the language of politics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Finality
#Language
#Politics
It is easier to be critical than correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Correct
#Critical
#Easier
#Than
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Ambition
#Fortune
#Great
#Men
#People
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.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Art
#City
#Faith
#Great
#Man
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Country
#Education
#Fate
#People
We moralize among ruins.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Among
#Ruins
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Important
#Know
#Life
#Next
#Opportunity
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Damn
#Party
#Principles
#Stick
#Your
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
#Future
#Preparation
#Progress
#Respect
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Gladness
#Like
#Man
#Nature
#Sometimes
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Alter
#Change
#Developed
#Only
#Opinions
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#History
#Life
#Nothing
#Theory
#Without
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Am
#Follow
#Leader
#Must
#People
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Defect
#Redeeming
#Single
#William
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Ages
#Experience
#Wisdom
#Wise
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Because
#Cease
#Colonies
#Independent
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.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Clothes
#Conservative
#Gentleman
#Right
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#End
#Ignorance
#Love Is
#Love
#Magic
Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Teaches
#Toleration
#Travel
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Conclusion
#Despair
#Fools
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Behind
#Men
#Nation
#Strength
#Women
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Exercise
#People
#Power
#Repeat
#Trust
London is a roost for every bird.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Bird
#Every
#London
#Roost
#Travel
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Day
#Every Day
#Human
#Relationship
In politics nothing is contemptible.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Contemptible
#Nothing
#Politics
There is no gambling like politics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Gambling
#Like
#Politics
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Attendance
#He
#House
#Man
#Marriage
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Great Man
#Great
#History
#Man
#Odds
Without tact you can learn nothing.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Education
#Learn
#Nothing
#Tact
#Without
We cannot learn men from books.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Books
#Cannot
#Education
#Learn
#Men
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Change
#Country
#Inevitable
#Progressive
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Begins
#Ends
#Knowledge
#Religion
#Where
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Fear
#Feel
#Humanity
#Our
#Us
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Economy
#Efficiency
#Only
#Where
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Foundation
#Happiness
#Health
#People
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Easy
#Hard
#Life Is Hard
#Life
#Manners
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
- Benjamin Disraeli
#Expect
#Happens
#Least
#Occurs
#Seldom
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