Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
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
Dead
Century
Living
Anticipates
Always
Persecuted
Life
Anticipate
Anticipation
Generally
More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
Benjamin Disraeli
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the child of audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Benjamin Disraeli
Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.
Benjamin Disraeli
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli
He was distinguished for ignorance for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli
All is mystery but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Benjamin Disraeli
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.
Benjamin Disraeli
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
Benjamin Disraeli
The affections are the children of ignorance when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
Benjamin Disraeli
I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.
Benjamin Disraeli
You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.
Benjamin Disraeli
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Benjamin Disraeli
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Benjamin Disraeli
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
Benjamin Disraeli
