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
pain party gay
Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.
listening unions habit
You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.
art stubborn matter
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
enthusiasm genius breaths
Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.
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.
dull life-is
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
lying moderation pleasure
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
science scientist pursuit
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
time military fool
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
political phrases politics
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
excess moderation
There is moderation even in excess.
gambling political politics
There is no gambling like politics.
data views turns
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
errors sincerity earnest
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.