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Benjamin Disraeli

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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado...
HERMANN HESSE Pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad cosas bajas y viles, porque no ve con los ojos,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desde temprana edad eran conscientes del escaso valor que el mundo daba a los libros, de manera que ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Que haya otros que estén en desacuerdo con nosotros (que no tomen en cuenta lo que hacemos sino lo ...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN -En mis ojos, fuiste mía desde el momento en el que te vi en el Starbucks con tu amiga. En mi mente...
MEGAN MAXWELL Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista...
JORGE LUIS BORGES En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las person...
JOHN C. MAXWELL El peor tipo de llanto no era el tipo que todos podían ver, los lamentos en las esquinas, el desgar...
KATIE MCGARRY Todos los esfuerzos--que no son pocos--hechos por el gobierno, en materia educativa, se diluyen en e...
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THOMAS HARRIS Así, la suerte de la mujer y la del socialismo están íntimamente ligadas, como se ve también
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NICHOLAS SPARKS «¿Y mientras tanto?», preguntó el marqués.
«Mientras tanto», dijo Abrenuncio, «tóquenl...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ El hombre no domina la naturaleza, sino que, fundándose sobre el conocimiento de unas cuantas leyes...
ERICH FROMM A veces se preguntaba si los instintos del ser humano habían cambiado en ese tiempo, y siempre lleg...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Que yo sepa, lo único que no da resaca y
que disipa momentáneamente la muerte
—tambié...
MILENA BUSQUETS La dicha es una cosa tan rara en este mundo, que el hombre no ha pensado en inventar palabras para e...
THéOPHILE GAUTIER Aspiro a no depender de nadie, ni del hombre que adoro. No quiero ser su manceba, tipo innoble, la h...
BENITO PéREZ GALDóS Es la hora, amor mío, de apartar esta rosa sombría, cerrar las estrellas, enterrar la ceniza en la...
PABLO NERUDA Para eliminar el salvajismo en el mundo, hay que empezar eliminando el salvajismo de los deportes sa...
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA —Pues ahí, no aquí [...] siguen morando en nidos y en «boudoirs», en cortes de justicia y en o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Los amantes y los locos tienen desbocado el seso, y son dados a forjar fantasías que abarcan más d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE En cuanto al poder, se aleja a toda vela de la calle y del mercado, de las asambleas y de los parlam...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Pero el sufrimiento pasa. Si la vida, que es todo, pasa, por qué no han de pasar el amor y el dolor...
FERNANDO SAVATER Porque no vivo ni en mi pasado ni en mi futuro. Tengo sólo el presente, y él es el que me interesa...
PAULO COELHO —¿Nunca has parado el mundo?
—¿Qué es parar el mundo?
—Parar el mundo es decidir ...
ALBERT ESPINOSA Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro...
JULIO CORTáZAR - La gente debería tenerle miedo a Ursula Monkton - afirmé
- Quizá. Y a qué crees que le ti...
NEIL GAIMAN Puedo decirte que el final de una vida es la suma del amor que fue vivido en ella; y estar en su fin...
CASSANDRA CLARE Pero los escritores mienten, aun los más sinceros. Los menos hábiles, carentes de palabras y frase...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semill...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE No te necesitaba, idiota. Te he elegido. Y luego tú me has elegido a mí. Y esto es como una promes...
JOHN GREEN No os quepais en el cerebro lo que os puede caber en el bolsillo. Y al contrario, ¡no os quepais en...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradu...
AUDREY DRY Los jóvenes entendemos que en el siglo 21 es inaceptable que familias enteras tengan que resignarse...
RAFAEL OLIVERO Los nombres son lo primero que desaparece cuando se extingue el aliento y el corazón deja de latir....
NEIL GAIMAN en realidad no importa que no esperemos nada de la vida, sino que la vida espere algo de nosotros. D...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Pero es más que sólo un arañazo. Es un puñetazo en el estómago y una bofetada en la cara. Es un...
JAY ASHER La voluntad, el deseo de vivir, es tan fuerte en el animal como en el hombre. En el hombre es mayor ...
PíO BAROJA Nuestra vida son los ríos
que van a dar en la mar,
que es el morir
JORGE MANRIQUE (...) Y la alegría lo llenó de la cabeza a los pies, alegría de vivir y alegría de ser él mismo...
MICHAEL ENDE Llega un momento en que nos damos cuenta de que nuestros padres no se pueden salvar a ellos mismos n...
JOHN GREEN ¿Quiere que vaya a la iglesia y me confiese? ¿Cree que los detectives nos rebajamos a hablar con s...
PABLO DE SANTIS Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo lentamente, que es un ritual íntimo, que un libro es...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN No puedes esperar que existan los finales felices. Tienes que creer en ellos. Luego haz el trabajo, ...
NORA ROBERTS El que tiene fe en sí mismo no necesita que los demás crean en él.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO (...) y todo aquello unido era el río, todas las voces, los fines, los anhelos, los sufrimientos, l...
HERMANN HESSE De lo que hemos dicho se desprende que la tarea del poeta es describir no lo que ha
acontecido,...
ARISTOTLE pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad lo que es grosero, deforme y vulgar. El amor ve...
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GEORGE ORWELL la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa...
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EMILIO BUESO -¿Te preparas para otra guerra?
-Oh, ahora no. Ahora estamos en ese dulce periodo en el que to...
SUZANNE COLLINS Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO El problema es que mucha gente tiene miedo a sufrir cuando en el pasado han tenido experiencias amor...
DAVID COTOS La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen sien...
ANTONIO GUADARRAMA Ella, sin duda, era la encarnación de la belleza que encontraba en la Tierra. Tenía que pasar por ...
ANAGABY ARRIETA Yo he visto estos solitarios apretujados en increíbles racimos en los andenes y en los coches del t...
ARTURO USLAR PIETRI Ponerse un huipil era toda una iniciación, al hacerlo uno repetía diariamente el viaje interior ha...
LAURA ESQUIVEL Ustedes piensan primero en obtener la producción más grande posible en el menor tiempo posible. No...
ALDOUS HUXLEY En la historia del mundo, nunca antes los no-lugares han ocupado tanto espacio”. Los
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Los Gamins se acurrucan en sus cubículos, como dulces palomas en un campanario, y examinan manuscri...
SALLY THORNE Y al final resultaba que ser soldado de la patria no era precisamente defender el suelo, las fronter...
MARIO BENEDETTI Se sabe que las bicicletas han tratado por todos los medios de remediar su triste condición social....
JULIO CORTáZAR pero en la tierra es más feliz la rosa arrancada que aquella que ajándose en el virgen rosal, crec...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE —Estoy enamorado de ti, y no me apetece privarme del sencillo placer de decir la verdad. Estoy ena...
JOHN GREEN La mayoría de nosotros encuentra muy difícil desear el cielo, salvo si esto significa volver a enc...
C.S. LEWIS ¿Ven la manera en que está el sol ahora, con las sombras largas y ese tipo de luz suave, brillante...
JOHN GREEN Cuando los adultos dicen: “Los adolescentes piensan que son invencibles”, con esa sonrisa maños...
JOHN GREEN La mayoría de las personas no tienen tantos recelos ante lo sobrenatural como les gusta creer a los...
STEPHEN KING A veces oigo una música... O una canción... Una voz de mujer... Y allí encuentro lo que he sentid...
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH hay muchas cosas que le dan sentido a la vida en las que podríamos encontrar la felicidad que tanto...
ED HERNANDEZ me habia quedado tambien casi por completo sin contactos con quienes anteriormente mehabia permitido...
THOMAS BERNHARD Tu casa, al ser el lugar donde lees, puede decirnos cuál es el lugar que los libros tienen en tu vi...
ITALO CALVINO Me encantaría creer en un mundo invisible. Eso destruiría todo el sufrimiento y la presión del mu...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los i...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Y la belleza es una forma de genio más elevada, en verdad, que el genio; no tiene necesidad de expl...
OSCAR WILDE —No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS No tenían tiempo para pensar en el futuro. Pero luego las expectativas de vida empezaron a aumentar...
JOHN GREEN La escuela debería seducir, enamorar. Ser ese escenario donde todos los días los alumnos al salir ...
ANNA FORES Hace poco encontraron en el bosque un caballo salvaje. Estaba muerto. En otro lugar, una liebre. No ...
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH —Si yo bajara en busca de tu alma, ni todos los querubines negros juntos podrían apartarme de ti....
SYLVAIN REYNARD Las crudas realidades de las personas, los menos favorecidos, no deberíamos sentir esas realidades ...
PATRICIA VELáSQUEZ La memoria es como libro en el cual se escribe toda nuestra vida. Algunas veces deseamos cerrarlo y ...
AUDREY DRY La Lo­te­ría, con su re­par­to se­ma­nal de enor­mes pre­mios, era el único acon­te­ci­...
GEORGE ORWELL ¿Llegará el día en que sea capaz de sacármela de la cabeza? Incluso ahora que la situación en l...
ADRIANA GONZáLEZ MáRQUEZ Lo que no resulta explicable hoy, en una situación en una inferioridad política de las mujeres se ...
PAUL B. PRECIADO ¿ Por qué morían tan jóvenes?, se pregunta Stefan Zweig hablando de aquella generación y de su ...
WILLIAM OSPINA Si que­da­ba al­gu­na es­pe­ran­za, debía estar en los pro­les, por­que solo en esas masas...
GEORGE ORWELL La labor más importante del ser humano es buscar la moralidad en sus actos. Es de lo que depende nu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Es una mera ficción eso de que no existe un puente de unión entre una y otra gente, y que todos vi...
HERMANN HESSE —Te diré a lo que es real. Real es que yo estaba en la cárcel durante el último año, quedándo...
SIMONE ELKELES Ten en Cuenta que la gente cambia, pero el pasado no
BECCA FITZPATRICK Porque nadie es tan necio que prefiera la guerra a la paz: en ésta los hijos entierran a sus padres...
HERODOTUS Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, ...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Great countries are those that produce great people.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We moralize among ruins.
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.
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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 Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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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.
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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.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Genius, when young, is divine.
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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 Duty cannot exist without faith.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to tha...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Assassination has never changed the history of the world
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrass...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime
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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...
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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies d...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of m...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is the lot of man to suffer.
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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that i...
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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Adventures are to the adventurous.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the p...
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