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Quotes By author - Starting with B - Benjamin Disraeli
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There are 171 quotes for the author Benjamin Disraeli
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.
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Patriotism
Work: campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Statistics
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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Laws
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Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
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Change
Work: Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
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Quotations
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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Knowledge
Work: Sybil, 1845
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Miscellaneous
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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Quotations
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Criticism
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No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
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Government
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Statistics
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The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
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Miscellaneous
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Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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