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Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
The country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
‘A sound Conservative government,’ said Taper, musingly. ‘I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.’ (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
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 (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ‘Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.’ That depends, Sir,’ said Disraeli, ‘whether I embrace your policies or your mistress (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism? (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
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 (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music! (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen (Benjamin Disraeli Quotes)