Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

547 quotes · Politician, Author

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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Courageous Sad Angry 547 quotes · page 26 of 46

Benjamin Disraeli

Politician, Author

Philosophical

“It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.”

Men Passion Knowledge

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Benjamin Disraeli

Politician, Author

Philosophical

“Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.”

People May Gentleman

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Philosophical

“I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.”

Pages Blank

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Angry

“Damn your principles! Stick to your party.”

Political Party

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Angry

“There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.”

Sin Greater Exaggeration

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Creative

“An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.”

Style Posterity

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Regretful

“More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.”

Men Nonsense

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Confident

“Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.”

Men Inspirational Successful

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Adventurous

“The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.””

Tree Adventure Fruit

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Wise

“What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.”

Errors Sincerity Earnest

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Philosophical

“Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.”

Men Race Islands

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Peaceful

“At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.”

World Peace Capitalist

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