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
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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He traces the steam engine all the way back to the tea kettle.
anecdotes found people works
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
amiable destroys everyday human nerves
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
exuberance gifted imagination
Inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination
insolence learn
He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective
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Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
enthusiasm genius product
Every product of genius must be the product of enthusiasm.
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If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.
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For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret
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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.