Quotes by Disraeli, Benjamin

"The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on age and aging   

"Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret."

Disraeli, Benjamin on age and aging   

"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."

Disraeli, Benjamin on desperation
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"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

Disraeli, Benjamin on destiny
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"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."

Disraeli, Benjamin on determination
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"Despair is the conclusion of fools."

Disraeli, Benjamin on doubt
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"Duty cannot exist without faith."

Disraeli, Benjamin on duty
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"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."

Disraeli, Benjamin on economy and economics
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"On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education   

"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"There is no education like adversity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."

Disraeli, Benjamin on enthusiasm   

"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."

Disraeli, Benjamin on enthusiasm
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"The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories."

Disraeli, Benjamin on evolution   

"What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens."

Disraeli, Benjamin on expectation
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"Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him."

Disraeli, Benjamin on expediency   

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Disraeli, Benjamin on nations
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"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

Disraeli, Benjamin on facts
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"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."

Disraeli, Benjamin on fame   

"We make our fortunes and we call them fate."

Disraeli, Benjamin on fate
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"He has not a single redeeming defect."

Disraeli, Benjamin on faults   

"Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."

Disraeli, Benjamin on frankness
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."

Disraeli, Benjamin on genius
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"Genius, when young, is divine."

Disraeli, Benjamin on genius   

"It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other."

Disraeli, Benjamin on agents   

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

Disraeli, Benjamin on agreement
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"Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief."

Disraeli, Benjamin on alliances   

"Amusement to an observing mind is study."

Disraeli, Benjamin on amusement
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"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."

Disraeli, Benjamin on anecdotes   

"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions."

Disraeli, Benjamin on greatness
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"A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation."

Disraeli, Benjamin on greatness
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"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

Disraeli, Benjamin on grief
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"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."

Disraeli, Benjamin on health   

"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."

Disraeli, Benjamin on heroes and heroism   

"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."

Disraeli, Benjamin on humankind   

"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."

Disraeli, Benjamin on ideas   

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Disraeli, Benjamin on ignorance
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"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

Disraeli, Benjamin on inequality