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
two gentleman consideration
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
inspiration men competition
What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
power
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
friendship country men
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
responsibility giving advice
I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.
art study fine
In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.
data views turns
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
animal law desert
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
men nonsense commerce
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
dull life-is
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
imagination enthusiasm heat
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.
enthusiasm genius breaths
Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.
men may energy
No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.
inspiration competition emulation
Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.