Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Benjamin Disraeli
Age: 76 †
Born: 1804
Born: December 21
Died: 1881
Died: April 19
Biographer
Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
Novelist
Politician
Writer
London
England
1st Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin
Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Earl of Beaconsfield
Benjamin
Earl of Beaconsfield
Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden Disraeli
Dizzy
Leisure
Civilization
Means
Two
Mean
Men
Increased
More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
Benjamin Disraeli
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin Disraeli
A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Benjamin Disraeli
Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.
Benjamin Disraeli
The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
Benjamin Disraeli
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli
Turtle makes all men equal.
Benjamin Disraeli
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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nature is more powerful than education time will develop everything.
Benjamin Disraeli
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Benjamin Disraeli
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
Benjamin Disraeli
London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Benjamin Disraeli
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
Benjamin Disraeli
The essence of education is the education of the body.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli
