Benjamin Disraeli - Man Quotes

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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

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Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

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As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

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Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the
arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

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What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man.... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim.... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

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The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

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I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

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Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

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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.

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It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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

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

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No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves... Language and religion do not make a race—there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

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A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine- tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.

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The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

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The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

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Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.

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Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

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Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

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

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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

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