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Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

Benjamin Disraeli
World, Quitting, Forget You
Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.405

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Benjamin Disraeli
Power, Two Nations, Welfare Programs
Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.315

We are taught words, not ideas.

Benjamin Disraeli
Education, Ideas, Taught

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli
Love, Sad, Broken Heart
"Henrietta Temple: A Love Story".

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Benjamin Disraeli
Horse, Dark, Past
Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.45, Gerald Duckworth & Co

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Benjamin Disraeli
Numbers, Government, Long
Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.65

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Benjamin Disraeli
Israel, Views, Heaven
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5014, Delphi Classics

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational Life, History, Biographies
Contarini Fleming pt. 1, ch. 23 (1832) See RalphWaldo Emerson 11

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Benjamin Disraeli
Sarcastic, Sophisticated, Egotistical
Referring to Gladstone in a speech at a banquet in The Duke of Wellington's Riding School, Knightsbridge, 27 July 1878: 'The Times' 29 July 1878

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Years, Events
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1976, Delphi Classics

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Remember, Sometimes

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

Benjamin Disraeli
Book, Men, Great Things
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 profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Benjamin Disraeli
Wisdom, Art, Philosophy
Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Contarini Fleming and The rise of Iskander”, p.276

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Benjamin Disraeli
Leadership, People, Vision

I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli
Truth, Justice, Political
'Hansard' 11 February 1851

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Potters, Human Nature
Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.338

Man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli
Powerful, Men, Matter
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.377, Delphi Classics

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Benjamin Disraeli
Two, Gentleman, Consideration

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Benjamin Disraeli
Magnificence, Splendor, Wealth
Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “The young duke. Count Alarcos”

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Benjamin Disraeli
Christianity, Neighbor, Modern
Benjamin Disraeli (1872). “Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Men, Odds
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

Benjamin Disraeli
Wine, Bored, So Bored
"Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 1, 1845.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

Benjamin Disraeli
Book, Battle, May
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4906, Delphi Classics

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Politics, Remember
Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Stanhope, July 17, 1870.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

Benjamin Disraeli
Affection, Appreciated, Lost
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3998, Delphi Classics