Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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601. “The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

602. “War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

603. “Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

604. “The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

605. “Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

606. “Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

607. “The depositary of power is always unpopular.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

608. “Man is more powerful than matter.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

609. “It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

610. “Here’s to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

611. “I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

612. “If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, – the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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613. “Turtle makes all men equal.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

614. “Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

615. “Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

616. “Everything in this world depends upon will.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

617. “A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

618. “Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

619. “When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

620. “Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

621. “We cannot learn men from books.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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622. “Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

623. “The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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624. “That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

625. “Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

626. “Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

627. “Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

628. “It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

629. “The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

630. “Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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631. “Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

632. “The canter is a cure for every evil.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

633. “The essence of education is the education of the body.”

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634. “Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

635. “Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

636. “I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

637. “If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

638. “The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

639. “I believe absence is a great element of charm.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

640. “The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

641. “A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

642. “The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

643. “As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

644. “Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

645. “Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

646. “The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

647. “One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

648. “William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

649. “Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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650. “A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.”

— Benjamin Disraeli