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
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Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
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What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.
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I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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We have no permanent friend. We have no permanent enemies. We just have permanent interests.
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It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is—the determination to maintain the Empire of England.
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We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
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Beauty can inspire miracles.
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A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!