Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIHow much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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We moralize among ruins.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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Two 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. The rich and the poor.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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Little things affect little minds.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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