Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “The depositary of power is always unpopular.”

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302. “I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.”

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303. “Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.”

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304. “Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.”

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305. “Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.”

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306. “As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.”

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307. “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.”

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308. “I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.”

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309. “O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.”

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310. “There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.”

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311. “I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.”

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

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313. “It is the lot of man to suffer.”

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314. “I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.”

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315. “Silence often expresses ’more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.”

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316. “The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.”

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317. “Man is created for a purpose; the object of his existence is to perfect himself. Man is imperfect by nature, because if nature had made him perfect he would have had no wants; and it is only by supplying his wants that utility can be developed. The development of utility is therefore the object of our being, and the attainment of this great end the cause of our existence.”

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318. “It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”

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319. “She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.”

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320. “When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.”

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321. “Beauty can inspire miracles.”

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

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

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324. “There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.”

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325. “As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.”

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326. “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.”

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327. “Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.”

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328. “He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.”

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

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330. “An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”

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331. “The indulgence in grief is a blunder.”

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332. “Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.”

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333. “You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.”

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334. “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.”

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335. “Assassination has never changed the history of the world.”

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336. “Turtle makes all men equal.”

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

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

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340. “Difficulties melt away under tact.”

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

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342. “In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.”

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343. “Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.”

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344. “Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.”

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

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346. “Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.”

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347. “We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.”

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

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349. “I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.”

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350. “Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.”

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