Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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
Difference
Differences
Gladstone
Politics
Thames
Someone
Dragged
Would
Misfortune
Calamity
Misfortunes
Fell
More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
Life is too short to be little.
Benjamin Disraeli
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
Benjamin Disraeli
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Benjamin Disraeli
Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone likes flattery and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli
A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are taught words, not ideas.
Benjamin Disraeli
The canter is a cure for every evil.
Benjamin Disraeli
Turtle makes all men equal.
Benjamin Disraeli
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
Benjamin Disraeli
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no waste of time like making excuses.
Benjamin Disraeli
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
Benjamin Disraeli
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.
Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
Benjamin Disraeli
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Benjamin Disraeli
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli