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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli
Believe, Intelligent, Destiny

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship, Beautiful, Thinking
Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.147

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Benjamin Disraeli
Passion, Mankind
Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.12

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Benjamin Disraeli
Intelligent, Political, Mediocrity
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.104

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Benjamin Disraeli
Adventure, Vacation, Adventurous
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli
Intelligent, Errors, Religion
Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Benjamin Disraeli
Military, Almost Done, Youth
Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.88

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Waste, Eternity
Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli
Children, Eloquence
Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.267

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

Benjamin Disraeli
Party, Believe, Government
Speech at Manchester, 3 April 1872, in 'The Times' 4 April 1872

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

Benjamin Disraeli
Peace, Lord, Diplomacy
'Hansard' 16 July 1878.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

Benjamin Disraeli
Rights, Society, Fundamentals
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

Benjamin Disraeli
Care, Firsts, Duty

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Benjamin Disraeli
Argument, Comprehension, Antagonist
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Benjamin Disraeli (1982). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1835-1837”

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

Benjamin Disraeli
Horse, Distance, Dark
The Young Duke bk. 2, ch. 5 (1831). The Oxford English Dictionary has this as its earliest citation for the term dark horse, and Disraeli is frequently considered to be the coiner. However, an earlier usage is in the Edinburgh Advertiser, 24 Sept. 1822: "What is termed an outside or a dark horse always tells well for heavy betters."

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship, Country, Men
Speech at Guildhall, 9 November 1877, in 'The Times' 10 November 1877.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

Benjamin Disraeli
Secrecy, Counsellors

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

Benjamin Disraeli
Character, Feelings, Patriotism
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”

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Benjamin Disraeli
Discovery, Progress, Comfort

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship, Memories, Heart
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5010, Delphi Classics

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Benjamin Disraeli
Silent, Questioning, Teach
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”

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

Benjamin Disraeli
Genius, Enthusiasm, Breaths

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 Disraeli
Political, Mind, Wish
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3039, Delphi Classics

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Benjamin Disraeli
Plato, Moving, Eye

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Benjamin Disraeli
Party, Pride, Ability