Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRSwas a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 December 1804
sarcastic sophisticated egotistical
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
knowledge passion men
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
beautiful art men
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.
im-sorry apology apologizing
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
love long age
I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.
angel men apes
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.
believe thinking wings
You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.
men potters human-nature
Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
men suffering
It is the lot of man to suffer.
beauty beautiful novelty
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
time powerful
Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
class gossip west
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.
vanishing generations opinion
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
greatness mind generations
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.