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
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
lay likes thick
Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel
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Inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination
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At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists
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What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
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Every product of genius must be the product of enthusiasm.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations
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Some people exclaim, "Give me no anecdotes of an author, but give me his works," and yet I have often found that the anecdotes are more interesting than the works