Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Even
Pursuit
Opening
Delight
Youth
Courses
Imparts
Course
Vivacity
Age
Impart
Reading
Novelty

More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Image
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
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
Image
Meditation is culture.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
England does not love coalitions.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
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
Image
Amusement to an observing mind is study.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
The affections are the children of ignorance when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Sorry only counts for that which it cannot alter.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Benjamin Disraeli