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...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 December 1804
economy efficiency
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
party political politics
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
sarcastic work ignorance
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
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The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.
country heart responsibility
England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.
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The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
fate men temper
A man's fate is his own temper.
events advantage prove
One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.
grew eloquence intoxicated
I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.
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The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.
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We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.
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The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.