Benjamin Disraeli Quotes about Imagination

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Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life Is Too Short, Imagination, Littles

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Benjamin Disraeli

Imagination, Politics, Opponents

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: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Passion, Men, Imagination

'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 4, ch. 13

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Imagination, Enthusiasm, Heat

Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”