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Quotations of selected author

Benjamin Disraeli

1804 - 1881. British politician, novelist, and essayist, two times was a Prime Minister.

1. "Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."

source: "Coningsby"

categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Youth and Age

2. "Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon."

categories: History and Nations

3. "When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."

source: "Contarini Fleming"

categories: Law and Crime

4. "What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity

5. "Variety is the mother of Enjoyment."

source: "Vivian Grey"

categories: Joy and Sadness

6. "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned lies, and Statistics."

categories: Truth and Falsity

7. "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."

categories: Various -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

8. "The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven."

source: "Tancred"

categories: History and Nations

9. "The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."

categories: Success and Fame

10. "The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

categories: Success and Fame

11. "The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."

categories: Various

12. "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."

source: "Henrieta Temple"

categories: Love -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

13. "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

categories: Human -:- Good and Evil

14. "Success is the child of audacity."

source: "The Rise of Iskander"

categories: Success and Fame

15. "Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard."

categories: Life and Death -:- Manners and Ethics

16. "Never apologize for showing feeling...When you do so, you apologize for truth."

categories: Truth and Falsity

17. "Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth."

categories: Oration and Silence

18. "Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."

categories: History and Nations -:- Human

19. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

categories: Egoism

20. "Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

source: "Vivian Grey"

categories: Human -:- Power and Weakness

21. "Man is not the creature of circumstance. Circumstances are the creatures of men."

categories: Human -:- Various

22. "Like all great travellers [...] I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

source: "Vivian Grey"

categories: Memory

23. "Life 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 fervour."

source: "Coningsby"

categories: Life and Death

24. "Justice is truth in action."

source: (or Joseph Joubert)

categories: Justice -:- Truth and Falsity

25. "I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man."

source: "Lothair"

categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man

26. "I am prepared for the worst, but hope the best."

source: "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy"

categories: Optimism and Hope

27. "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."

source: (Speech on January 24, 1860)

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Various

28. "Fear makes us feel our humanity."

source: "Vivian Grey"

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Human

29. "Every woman should marry - and no man."

source: "Lothair"

categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man

30. "As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

categories: Success and Fame -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

31. "A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

categories: Destiny and Fate


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