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Letter "B" » Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
«He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
insolence, invective, petulance, sarcasm
«The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.»
«We cannot learn men from books.»
«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.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
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«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.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
acknowledges, careless, co, cos, fortunes, isolation, neighbors, operation
«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.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
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«The right honourable gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
bathed, bathing, honourable, peel, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of, Robert, Robert A, Robert E, Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel, The Honourable, walked, Whig, Whigs
«A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Government,
Hypocrisy,
Politics
| Keywords:
conservative, hypocrisy, organized
«Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Perseverance,
Tact
| Keywords:
most-valuable, mount, tact, The Crowd
«William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
defect, Gladstone, redeeming, William Gladstone
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