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...
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Date of Birth21 December 1804
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It is easier to be critical than correct.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret
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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel
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It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is—the determination to maintain the Empire of England.
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The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
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We cannot learn men from books.
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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.
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Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
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Protection is not a principle but an expedient
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Duty cannot exist without faith