1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Grief]
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Inspiration]
He has not a single redeeming defect.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Faults]
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Ideas]
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Inhibition]
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Planning]
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Revolutions and Revolutionaries]
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Determination]
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli – [Leaders and Leadership]
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Compromise]
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Neighbors]
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Politicians and Politics]
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Civilization]
It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Marriage]
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Critics and Criticism]
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Suffering]
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Agents]
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Reason]
Justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Justice]
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Life and Living]
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