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Benjamin Disraeli

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SARA STRAIN I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... a...
LUCILLE BALL If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.
CARMEN AGRA DEEDY Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone an...
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BEN OKRI Tell me or tell me never
ALON CALINAO DY My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible...
W. H. AUDEN They all have wonderful stories to tell.
CYNTHIA PROST The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the ...
YAHOO SERIOUS All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.
J. ROBERT LENNON A jealous person will tell you that you should not be happy all the time, a successful person will t...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never si...
JOHN GREEN The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.
KIM EDWARDS In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Never tell your resolution beforehand.
JOHN SELDEN Never tell me the odds.
HANS SOLO Never tell me the odds.
HAN SOLO Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the...
JENNIFER WEINER The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all ...
YAHOO SERIOUS There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay a...
DANIEL GONçALVES This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell s...
DARIO ARGENTO Tell them stories.
PHILIP PULLMAN You never can tell with bees.
A.A. MILNE 1. Never tell everything at once.
KEN VENTURI You never can tell about bees.
WINNIE THE POOH I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.
JOHN KRASINSKI We all have the time we need to tell our stories.
KIM ZARINS There can never be enough said about life, only pictures can tell
MITTA XININDLU Your kids will tell things to strangers that they will never tell to you.
DAVE AUSDENMOORE We tell ourselves stories,
JOAN DIDION People are never too busy to tell you all that they have to do.
UNKNOWN I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN Never be afraid to tell these people crap. Well, you can always apologize.
BHEKIMPILO DUNGENI People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind does move / Silent...
WILLIAM BLAKE Heck, no, I can't tell the secret ingredient. Because it's a secret, I can never tell.
BRAD COSENZA People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usua...
STEVEN SPIELBERG But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
ALBERT CAMUS We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists ...
KEN FOLLETT Never tell your story to a deaf man.
PROVERB I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.
EOIN COLFER No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.
TOMMY LASORDA Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.
TOM BRADY Tell the ones you love what they mean to you ... Never part on a bad word, instead kiss and make up ...
FEMALE IMAGINATION As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and ...
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH To survive, you must tell stories.
UMBERTO ECO Significantly, it was HANNAH ARENDT We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.
LAUREN OLIVER And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.
ERICA LORRAINE SCHEIDT Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
ANONYMOUS Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
MARK TWAIN Never tell a great idea to a small mind.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Never tell a child that something it’s too hard
MITCH ALBOM Never tell a person in love to be practical...that would be the most foolish advice ever!!
SWATI I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories.
CARRIE COON The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.
CRISS JAMI I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very...
MIA KIRSHNER There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private...
GRETA GARBO I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to ...
LARRY CONLEY We are the stories we tell ourselves.
SHEKHAR KAPUR A dwarf will always tell tall stories.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It...
JOHN DARNIELLE Never hide how you feel about someone you care or love, as tomorrow you may never get the chance to ...
MIKE GRIST I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing.
BEA ARTHUR Fuck the world and never tell them I love you.
M.F. MOONZAJER We can never tell what is in store for us.
HARRY S TRUMAN There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rathe...
FRANK GELETT BURGESS Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. Th...
STANISłAW LEM I never saw a Purple Cow; I never hope to See One; But I can Tell you, Anyhow, I'd rather See than B...
FRANK GELETT BURGESS It's the stories we're after. We love the stories and the artifacts can tell the stories.
DAN ELLIOTT Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingen...
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingen...
GEORGE S. PATTON Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell th...
GRETA GARBO Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingen...
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
ORSON SCOTT CARD He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what...
DOROTHY ALLISON Just for the sake of a piece of pie,
Some will speak unkind things about others and tell many ...
CHARMAINE J FORDE Oh, we call all tell stories about Bill. He wasn't ornery, but he was a musician.
JIM HUNTER Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
HOLLY BLACK We tell ourselves stories in order to live,
JOAN DIDION We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
JOAN DIDION Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whol...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into t...
MARK TWAIN We didn't think we should be the ones to tell him. We didn't lie to him, but we thought his parents ...
BILL SUMMEE Never argue with a fool. Listeners can't tell which is which.
UNKNOWN I never could tell anything, except the smell from the creek.
BILL WALLACE Not true. I can tell you that he never said that.
ARNOLD ROBINSON The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.
JOHN SLATTERY I have to tell you, I never tire of these tours.
KAY RUNGE Move fast, travel light, an never tell 'em your real name.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In politics, nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Amusement to an observing mind is study.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
BENJAMIN DISRAELI When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Success is the child of audacity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no education like adversity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Despair is the conclusion of fools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and th...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellin...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confus...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of governmen...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Genius, when young, is divine.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, wh...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A precedent embalms a principle.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Travel teaches tolerance.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A person's fate is their own temper.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Damn your principals. Stick to your Party!
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Little things affect little minds.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudi...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Everything comes if a man will only wait.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are Batavian graces in all he says.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Silence is the mother of truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no wisdom like frankness.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in r...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end
BENJAMIN DISRAELI All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Tact is the intelligence of the heart
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Without tact you can learn nothing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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