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Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Benjamin Disraeli
Principles, Politics, Motto
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Benjamin Disraeli
Civilization, Dwelling, House
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1884). “Lord Beaconsfield on the Constitution: "What is He?" and "A Vindication of the English Constitution"”

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Benjamin Disraeli
Funny, Music, Art
Benjamin Disraeli (1833). “Vivian Grey”, p.197

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

Benjamin Disraeli
Book, Reading, Men

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Benjamin Disraeli
Courage, Intelligent, Political
"Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury, Vol. 2: 1868-1880". Book by Gwendolen Cecil, 1921.

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

Benjamin Disraeli
Party, Position

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

Benjamin Disraeli
Friends, Men, Doe
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1866). “The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Venetia. Tancred”

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

Benjamin Disraeli
Beautiful, Country, Ocean
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.392

Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Rights, Views
Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, May 14, 1850.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

Benjamin Disraeli
Vehemence, Vehement, Careful
Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.359

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Political, Sound
Coningsby bk. 2, ch. 6 (1844)

We cannot learn men from books.

Benjamin Disraeli
Book, Men, Political
Vivian Grey bk. 5, ch. 1 (1826)

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Benjamin Disraeli
Mean, Men, Civilization
Speech at Manchester, 3 April 1872, in 'The Times' 4 April 1872

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Benjamin Disraeli
Mother, Children, Book
"Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of Glasgow Nov. 19, 1873".

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Benjamin Disraeli
Merit, Plagiarism, Preservation
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.443

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

Benjamin Disraeli
Heart, Blood, Arrows

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Benjamin Disraeli
Church, Aristocracy, Population
'Hansard' 16 February 1844

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Benjamin Disraeli
Originality, Treatment, Subjects
Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.184

Party is organized opinion.

Benjamin Disraeli
Party, Politics, Opinion
Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

Benjamin Disraeli
Attitude, Men, Bunch
"Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli".

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

Benjamin Disraeli
Cities, Wonderful, Manchester
"Coningsby: Or, The New Generation".

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspiration, Men, Competition

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

Benjamin Disraeli
1868 On becoming Prime Minister.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Powerful, Fog
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4039, Delphi Classics

It is the lot of man to suffer.

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