Best Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli (Top 10)
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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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.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Never complain and never explain.
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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Little things affect little minds.
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There is no education like adversity.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
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Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
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But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Life is too short to be little.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Ignorance never settles a question.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances,
Circumstances are the creatures of men.
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
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Justice is truth in action.
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
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The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
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I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
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Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.
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What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
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Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Duty cannot exist without faith
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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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A person's fate is their own temper.
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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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His Christianity was muscular
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
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I say that justice is truth in action.
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It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
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We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
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I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
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Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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London is a modern Babylon.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
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We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
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The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
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The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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