Benjamin Disraeli
English statesman and writer
Lived from: 1804 - 1881
Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 21 december 1804 Died: 19 april 1881
Quotes 81 till 100 of 174.
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Man is more powerful than matter.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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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.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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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.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
Henrietta Temple (1837) VI, 24― Benjamin Disraeli -
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
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News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
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