Benjamin Disraeli
- Country : United Kingdom
- Profession :British Statesman, Author, and Orator
- DOB: 1804-12-21
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) was a British statesman, author, and orator. Born into a Jewish family, he later embraced Anglicanism. As a Conservative Party leader, he served as Prime Minister twice in the 19th century. Disraeli’s political and social reforms aimed to bridge the gap between aristocracy and commoners, including the Reform Act of 1867, expanding the franchise. His novels, including “Sybil” and “Coningsby,” explored societal issues and earned him renown as a literary figure. With a unique blend of charisma and strategic acumen, Disraeli left a lasting impact on British politics and culture, shaping the Victorian era’s direction.
Chwytanie okazji pierwszą najważniejszą kwestią w życiu jest. Zrozumienie drugą , odpuścić kiedy je.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliPierwszÄ… najważniejszÄ… kwestiÄ… w życiu jest chwytanie okazji. DrugÄ… – zrozumienie, kiedy je odpuÅ›cić.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe English in politics are as the old Hebrews in religion, ‘a favored and peculiar people.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliIn great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliIn great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliYes,” said Lady St Julians. “I think those men who breakfast out or who give breakfasts are generally dangerous characters; at least, I would not trust them.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliAnd then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?
Author: Benjamin DisraeliWhat we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens
Author: Benjamin DisraeliSă vezi Ierusalimul înseamnă să vezi istoria lumii; ba mai mult, înseamnă să vezi istoria cerului și a pământului.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliNothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose
Author: Benjamin DisraeliSo you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliPersonal distinction is the only passport to the society of the great. Whether this distinction arise from fortune, family, or talent, is immaterial; but certain it is, to enter into high society, a man must either have blood, a million, or a genius.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliAn English revolution is at least a solemn sacrifice: a French revolution is an indecent massacre.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe messenger from the Republics of the West now prostrated himself before the Statue. He informed it that two parties had, unfortunately, broken out in these countries, and threatened their speedy dissolution; that one party maintained that all human government originated in the wants of man; while the other party asserted that it originated in the desires of man. That these factions had become so violent and so universal that public business was altogether stopped
Author: Benjamin DisraeliNever apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliNon chiedere mai scusa quando esterni un sentimento. Nel momento in cui lo fai, chiedi scusa per la verità .
Author: Benjamin DisraeliPredominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliOther men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life
Author: Benjamin DisraeliNext to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliArt was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliI have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying, that there is only one step between his state who deeply indulges in imaginative meditation, and insanity.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThere are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliAction may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliCircumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power
Author: Benjamin DisraeliPolitical institutions, founded on abstract rights and principles, are mere nullities.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliNo sabéis quiénes son los crÃticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el arte.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliI believe that nothing in newspapers is ever true,” said Madame Phoebus. “And that is why they are so popular,” added Euphrosyne; “the tast of the age being so decidedly for fiction.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliNothing can resist a human will that will stake its existence on a purpose
Author: Benjamin DisraeliWe live in an age where to be young and to be indifferent can no longer by synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the future are represented by suffering millions; and the youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity
Author: Benjamin DisraeliGenerally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliWe live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliNurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliBeware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliGive a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliKita dilahirkan untuk mencintai sesama.
Itulah prinsip keberadaan kita di dunia ini dan tujuan satu-satunya.
Sikap yang layak dan tenggang rasa terhadap orang-orang lain merupakan dua sifat utama seorang yang bijak.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliIn great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes;; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliIt has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliMan must ever be the slave of routine: but in old days it was a routine of great thoughts, and now it is a routine of little ones.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThere is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour
Author: Benjamin DisraeliLife is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliSeeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!
Author: Benjamin DisraeliMan is created for a purpose; the object of his existence is to perfect himself. Man is imperfect by nature, because if nature had made him perfect he would have had no wants; and it is only by supplying his wants that utility can be developed. The development of utility is therefore the object of our being, and the attainment of this great end the cause of our existence.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliLike all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliI feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliMan is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliAn author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliWherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliIf Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliYou 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.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliGrief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliTwo nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliIt is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliMan is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliWhat is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThrough perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliWhat we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliUpon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliMan is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliBut what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliI am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliAs a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliNothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliWe are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliNurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliOne of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliLike all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliHe was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliNever apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliAll is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliA member of Parliament to Disraeli: ‘Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli