My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMy idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no education like adversity.
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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIA Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMy objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWhat we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIDesperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELII am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWe should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIAction may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIGrief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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