Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

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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  • Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
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  • Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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  • Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.
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  • On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.
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  • Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
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  • Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
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  • Power has only one duty -to secure the social welfare of the People.
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  • Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
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  • Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
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  • Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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  • Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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  • Silence is the mother of truth.
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  • Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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  • Success is the child of audacity.
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  • Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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  • Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
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  • The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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  • The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
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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.
    Speach Glasgow 19 November 1870
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  • The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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