Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.
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
Vehement
Vehemence
Careful
Whatever
Never
More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
Benjamin Disraeli
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
Benjamin Disraeli
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Benjamin Disraeli
Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli
Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
Benjamin Disraeli
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
Benjamin Disraeli
All is mystery but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
Benjamin Disraeli
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
Benjamin Disraeli
I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin Disraeli
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
Benjamin Disraeli
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no waste of time like making excuses.
Benjamin Disraeli
The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
Benjamin Disraeli
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli
He who gains time gains everything.
Benjamin Disraeli
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
