Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (155 quotes)

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„Duty cannot exist without faith.“
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„We cannot learn men from books.“
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„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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„King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.“
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„A 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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„Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.“
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„There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.“
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„There is no gambling like politics.“
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„The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.“
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„The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.“
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„He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.“
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„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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„A majority is always better than the best repartee.“
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„William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.“
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„When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.“
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„What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.“
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„We moralize among ruins.“
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„That fatal drollery called a representative government.“
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„As for our majority... one is enough.“
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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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Author information

Benjamin Disraeli
Author born: December 21, 1804
Author died: April 19, 1881
Nationality: British
Author Profession: Statesman

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