Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics.
4609 When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
2762 Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
1198 The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
3798 Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
3796 Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
4018 Silence is the mother of truth.
1531 All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
4838 But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
3473 Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
4434 The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
1692 When I want to read a novel, I write one.
3540 The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
4558 Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
1860 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.
4144 In politics, nothing is contemptible.
3706 Read no history-nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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