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
Benjamin Disraeli quotes about
mother children childhood
To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.
civilization dwelling house
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
world quitting forget-you
Quit the world, and the world forgets you.
reading punctuation emphasis
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
party pride ability
I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.
adversity england nations
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
paradise sound eating
All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!
advice want matter
A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.
civilization tendencies monarchy
The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.
life country progressive
Change is constant in a progressive country.
believe quality links
I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.
life century anticipate
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
fall race blood
All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.
confused men race
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.