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People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli
Adversity, People, Defeated

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Benjamin Disraeli
Positive, Perseverance, Determination

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Benjamin Disraeli
Defeat

Great men never require experience.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Experience, Great Men

Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.

Benjamin Disraeli
Rothschild, World, Lord

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Benjamin Disraeli
Greatness, Mind, Generations

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli
Love, Inspirational, Life
Benjamin Disraeli (1974). “Sybil”, p.308, Prabhat Prakashan

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

Benjamin Disraeli
Mother, Enjoyment, Variety
Benjamin Disraeli (1833). “Vivian Grey”, p.84

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Benjamin Disraeli
Education, Country, School
'Hansard' 15 June 1874, col. 1618

Silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli
Life, Beautiful, Mother
Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.182

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Benjamin Disraeli
Respect, Character, Reality

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Benjamin Disraeli
Mistake, Sometimes, Nonsense
Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.184

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Benjamin Disraeli
Two Nations, Political, Feelings
Sybil bk. 2, ch. 5 (1845) See Kerner 1

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

Benjamin Disraeli
Two Nations, Class, People
'Sybil' (1845) bk. 4, ch. 8

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Benjamin Disraeli
Clever, Book, Reading
"Lothair".

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Benjamin Disraeli
Communication, Support, Decay

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, People, Produce

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

Benjamin Disraeli
Money, Wealth, Ought
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4161, Delphi Classics

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

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

Difficulties melt away under tact.

Benjamin Disraeli
Difficulty, Tact
Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.86

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

Benjamin Disraeli
Beautiful, Age, Aftermath
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4992, Delphi Classics

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

Benjamin Disraeli
Respect, Mean, Respectability

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Benjamin Disraeli
Public Opinion, Opinion, Sentiments
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness, Simple, Principles
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”

Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

Benjamin Disraeli
People, Gentleman, May
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1882). “Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield”