Benjamin Disraeli quotes - page 11

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world. (Benjamin Disraeli)
If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events. View quote
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Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular. View quote
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One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea, for ideas exist forever. View quote
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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. View quote
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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. View quote
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There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse. View quote
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How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts. View quote
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The essence of education is the education of the body. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. (Benjamin Disraeli)
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. View quote
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Everything in this world depends upon will. View quote
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The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . . View quote
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. View quote
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Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist. View quote
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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. View quote
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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. View quote
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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. View quote
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Gladstone speaking of Disraeli A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. View quote
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Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. (Benjamin Disraeli)
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. View quote
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The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph. View quote
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Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. View quote
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Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. View quote
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