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
Benjamin Disraeli quotes about
book reading men
Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.
friendship men boon
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
men light darkness
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.
confused men race
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.
friendship country men
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
men nonsense commerce
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
men remember sometimes
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
fate men temper
A man's fate is his own temper.
men world retiring
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
health men fruition
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
men funny-marriage should
Every man should marry - and no woman
book men great-things
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
angel men sides
Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.
passion men imagination
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.