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Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Benjamin Disraeli
Animal, Law, Camels
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3319, Delphi Classics

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

Benjamin Disraeli
Vapid, Faces, Sometimes
Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.89

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

Benjamin Disraeli
England, One Word
1844 Speech, House of Commons.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Benjamin Disraeli
Funny, Success, Conceited
Benjamin Disraeli, John Alexander Wilson Gunn, Melvin George Wiebe (1997). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856”, p.265, University of Toronto Press

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

Benjamin Disraeli
Mind, Amusement, Study
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.967, Delphi Classics

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Responsibility, Home
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

Benjamin Disraeli
Destiny, Bears
Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.230

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Benjamin Disraeli
Reading, Age, Novelty

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Benjamin Disraeli
Fear, Giving, Spurs

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Politics, Valuable
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Benjamin Disraeli
Doubt, Criticism, Elements
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1864). “Church policy: a speech delivered by the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P. at a meeting of the Oxford Diocesan Society for the Augmentation of Small Livings, in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, Nov. 25, 1864, etc”, p.17

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Children, Positive Thinking
Vivian Grey bk. 5, ch. 1 (1826)

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

Benjamin Disraeli
Perseverance, Moving, Two

In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

Benjamin Disraeli
Jesus, Law, Church
Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.130

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli
Believe, Fate, Men
Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.472, BoD – Books on Demand

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

Benjamin Disraeli
Religion, Incidents, Should
Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.71

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Benjamin Disraeli
Revolution, Opinion, Rebellious
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2490, Delphi Classics

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Memories, Men
Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Honor, Literature

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Intelligent, Enthusiasm For Life
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.213

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli
Funny, Political, Politics
To Matthew Arnold, in G. W. E. Russell 'Collections and Recollections' (1898) ch. 23

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Light, Darkness
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Benjamin Disraeli
Sound, Paradise, Eating
'The Young Duke' (1831) bk. 1, ch. 10

It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.

Benjamin Disraeli
Mistake, Party, Mean
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Benjamin Disraeli
Powerful, Men, World
Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”