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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

English statesman and writer

Lived from: 1804 - 1881

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 21 december 1804 Died: 19 april 1881

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  • Amusement to an observing mind is study.
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  • An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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  • As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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  • Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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  • At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
    Letter to Sarah Brydges Willyams (17 oktober 1863)
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  • Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
    Wilfrid Meynell - Benjamin Disraeli (1903) p. 83
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  • Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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  • Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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  • Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
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  • Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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  • Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
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  • Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
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  • Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
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  • Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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  • 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.
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  • Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
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  • Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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  • Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
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  • Damn your principals. Stick to your Party!
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  • Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.
    Henrietta Temple (1837) 2, ch. 1
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