Benjamin Disraeli
English statesman and writer
Lived from: 1804-1881
Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary)
Quotes: Benjamin Disraeli
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Benjamin Disraeli
+2A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
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Benjamin Disraeli
+1A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
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Benjamin Disraeli
+1A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Benjamin Disraeli
+1A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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Benjamin Disraeli
+1If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
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Benjamin Disraeli
0'Frank and explicit', that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
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Benjamin Disraeli
0A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Benjamin Disraeli
0A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Benjamin Disraeli
0A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
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Benjamin Disraeli
0A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Benjamin Disraeli
0A person's fate is their own temper.
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Benjamin Disraeli
0A precedent embalms a principle.
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Benjamin Disraeli
0A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Benjamin Disraeli
0Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Benjamin Disraeli
0All is race; there is no other truth.
Winston Churchill
Lord Chesterfield
