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I believe absence is a great element of charm.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

Benjamin Disraeli
Believe, Elements, Absence

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

Benjamin Disraeli
Youth, Fortune, Young
Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.4

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Independent, Colony
'Hansard' 5 February 1863

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

Benjamin Disraeli
Gentleman, Printing, Presses

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

Benjamin Disraeli
Class, Gossip, East
Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Benjamin Disraeli
Mother, Children, Childhood
Benjamin Disraeli (1864). “Venetia”, p.210

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Suffering, Age
'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Benjamin Disraeli
Health, Men, Fruition
Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.96, London : H. Colburn

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Benjamin Disraeli
Business, Party, Men
Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Benjamin Disraeli
Horse, Thinking, Packs
'Hansard' 3 June 1862

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

Benjamin Disraeli
Powerful, Men, People
Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Printing Trade Festival, 1845.

A person's fate is their own temper.

Benjamin Disraeli
Fate, Temper, Temperament

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Benjamin Disraeli
Observation, Acquire
Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.78

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

Benjamin Disraeli
Powerful, Pride, Men
Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Printing Trade Festival, 1845.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Benjamin Disraeli
Money, Passion, Ambition
Benjamin Disraeli (1859). “Henrietta Temple a Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli”, p.340

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Benjamin Disraeli
Writing, Discovery, Language
Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.17

London; a nation, not a city.

Benjamin Disraeli
Cities, London, Nations
'Lothair' (1870) ch. 27

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Phrases, Politics
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Benjamin Disraeli
Horse, Evil, Equestrian

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Benjamin Disraeli
Kings, Talking, Political
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

Nature is stronger than education.

Benjamin Disraeli
Education, Nature, Science

Turtle makes all men equal.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Turtles, Appetite
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4011, Delphi Classics

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

Benjamin Disraeli
Two Nations, Law, People
Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.283

As for our majority... one is enough.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Majority, Politics
"Endymion". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 64, 1880.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli
Change, History, Historical
'Hansard' 1 May 1865, col. 1246