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Life is too short to be little.

Life is too short to be little.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Life, Littles
Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.255

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Benjamin Disraeli
War, Passion, Independence

London is a modern Babylon.

Benjamin Disraeli
London, Modern, Babylon
'Tancred' (1847) bk. 5, ch. 5

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, World, Retiring
'Lothair' (1870) ch. 28

A precedent embalms a principle.

Benjamin Disraeli
Intelligent, Justice, Political
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”

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli
Ambition, Men, People

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

Benjamin Disraeli
Believe, Men, Luck

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Benjamin Disraeli
Husband, Wife, Command
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous

Benjamin Disraeli
Wise, Men, Trying

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Benjamin Disraeli
Economics, Economy, Efficiency
"Our future energy strategy cannot depend on renewables alone" by John Hayes, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2012.

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.

Benjamin Disraeli
Character, Facts, Sometimes
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3194, Delphi Classics

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Benjamin Disraeli
Differences, Special, Genius

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.

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

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

Benjamin Disraeli
Christianity, Judaism

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Preparation, Progress
'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

All must respect those who respect themselves.

Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.146

Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.

Benjamin Disraeli
Europe, Names, Two

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

Benjamin Disraeli
Character, Men, Thinking
Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.114, London : H. Colburn

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Benjamin Disraeli
Passion, Self, Play

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

Benjamin Disraeli
Grew, Eloquence, Intoxicated
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Benjamin Disraeli
Frankness
Benjamin Disraeli (1974). “Sybil”, p.251, Prabhat Prakashan

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Benjamin Disraeli
Passion, Government, Order
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.377, Delphi Classics

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

Benjamin Disraeli
Mistake, Men, Grandfather

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Jobs, War
Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Grey de Wilton, October 3, 1873.