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 DISRAELIFrank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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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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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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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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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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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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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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