Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 2

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
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There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
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Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
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Something will turn up.
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
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Little things affect little minds.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
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We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
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Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
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Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.
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Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
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Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.
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Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.
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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
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His Christianity was muscular.
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He has not a single redeeming defect.
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Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.
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Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.
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Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.
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Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
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There is no education like adversity.
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The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
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Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851
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There is no index of character as sure as the voice.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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The canter is a cure for every evil.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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In politics, nothing is contemptible.
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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.
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Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
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When I want to read a novel, I write one.
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The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
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The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
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But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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