BDBenjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield)

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Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield)

Life dates: 1805 AD — 1881 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1843 AD

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

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02c. 1843 AD

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

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03c. 1843 AD

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

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04c. 1843 AD

A precedent embalms a principle.

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05c. 1843 AD

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

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06c. 1843 AD

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

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07c. 1843 AD

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

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08c. 1843 AD

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

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09c. 1843 AD

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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10c. 1843 AD

The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

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11c. 1843 AD

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

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12c. 1843 AD

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

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13c. 1843 AD

I repeat . . . that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

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14c. 1843 AD

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.

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15c. 1843 AD

The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.

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16c. 1843 AD

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

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17c. 1843 AD

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

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18c. 1843 AD

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

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19c. 1843 AD

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life.

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20c. 1843 AD

Only think of Cockie Graves having gone and done it!

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21c. 1843 AD

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,—a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

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22c. 1843 AD

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

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23c. 1843 AD

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,—and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,—the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

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24c. 1843 AD

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

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