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Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Men, Race

Departure should be sudden.

Benjamin Disraeli
Departure, Should, Parting

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.

Benjamin Disraeli
Government, Discipline, Political

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

Benjamin Disraeli
Success, Discipline, Political
Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.26

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Powerful
Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.52

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Benjamin Disraeli
Im Sorry, Apology, Apologizing
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”

It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Determination, People
Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Lords, February 20, 1877.

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

Benjamin Disraeli
Food, Men, Cooking
The Young Duke bk. 1, ch. 14 (1831)

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

Benjamin Disraeli
Smoking, Moral, Habit

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

Benjamin Disraeli
Sex, Memories, Greek
Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.20, Gerald Duckworth & Co

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Cities, Desire
Benjamin Disraeli, Sheila Mary Smith (1981). “Sybil: or, the two nations”, Oxford University Press, USA

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Benjamin Disraeli
Angel, Men, Apes
Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Time, Teenage

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Thinking, Style

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

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

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

Benjamin Disraeli
Messages, Last Words, Ask Me

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

Benjamin Disraeli
Marriage, Husband, Cases

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time
Benjamin Disraeli (1872). “Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography”, p.13, Transaction Publishers

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

Benjamin Disraeli
Fog, People, Graves

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

Benjamin Disraeli
Clothes, Gentleman, Caught
Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, February 28, 1845.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

Benjamin Disraeli
Life, Anticipation, Century
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.331, Delphi Classics

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

Benjamin Disraeli
Treason, Sacrilege
'Hansard' 27 February 1871

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Benjamin Disraeli
Children, Ignorance, Horizon
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2510, Delphi Classics

What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.

Benjamin Disraeli
Beautiful, Art, Science
Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

Benjamin Disraeli
Done, Said, Remembered
Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil: Or, The Two Nations”, p.13