Benjamin Disraeli cytaty (323 cytatów, strona 4)

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. (ang.)
przypisane Disraeliemu przez Marka Twaina.
Źródło: Przykazania etyki prawniczej. Księga myśli, norm i rycin, wyb. Roman Tokarczyk, wyd. Wolters Kluwer Polska, s. 121.

„Ważne jest w życiu, by wiedzieć, kiedy skorzystać z okazji, ale nie mniej ważne wiedzieć, kiedy z niej korzystać nie należy.”

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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. (ang.)
Źródło: „Przekrój”, Wydania 14–26, Krakowskie Wydawnictwo Prasowe, 1999, s. 121.

„Rasowy mężczyzna jest drapieżnikiem, który ściga tylko wielką zwierzynę, władzę lub kobietę.”

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Źródło: Małgorzata Subotić, Wino, kobiety i bilard, Presspublica, 1997, s. 269.

„Partia to zorganizowana opinia.”

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„Sprawiedliwość jest prawdą w akcji.”

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Benjamin Disraeli: Cytaty po angielsku

“You know who critics are?— the men who have failed in literature and art.”

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Źródło: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 35. Compare: "Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton, p. 36. Delivered 1811–1812; "Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic", Percy Bysshe Shelley, Fragments of Adonais.

“The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.”

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Źródło: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 70.

“The Jews represent the Semitic principle; all that is spiritual in our nature. They are the trustees of tradition, and the conservators of the religious element. They are a living and the most striking evidence of the falsity of that pernicious doctrine of modern times, the natural equality of man. The political equality of a particular race is a matter of municipal arrangement and depends entirely on political considerations and circumstances; but the natural equality of man now in vogue, and taking the form of cosmopolitan fraternity, is a principle which, were it possible to act on it, would deteriorate the great races and destroy all the genius of the world. What would be the consequence on the great Anglo-Saxon republic, for example, were its citizens to secede from their sound principle of reserve, and mingle with their negro and coloured populations? In the course of time they would become so deteriorated that their states would probably be reconquered and regained by the aborigines whom they have expelled and who would then be their superiors.”

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Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography (1852), p. 496.
1850s

“If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.”

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In response to a man who asked Disraeli "What is the difference between a misfortune and a calamity?" cited in Wilfrid Meynell, Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography (1903), p. 146.
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“My Lords, the key of India is not Merv, or Herat, or Candahar. The key of India is London. The majesty of sovereignty, the spirit and vigour of your Parliaments, the inexhaustible resources of a free, an ingenious, and a determined people—these are the keys of India.”

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Źródło: Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1881/mar/04/candahar-resolution in the House of Lords (4 March 1881).

“The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.”

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Źródło: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 36.

“There is no index of character so sure as the voice.”

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Bk. II, Ch. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.”

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Źródło: Letter to Lord Stanhope (17 July 1870), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 5 (1920), p. 123-125.

“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”

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Book III, Chapter 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

“For what is the Tory party unless it represents national feeling? If it does not represent national feeling, Toryism is nothing. It does not depend upon hereditary coteries of exclusive nobles. It does not attempt power by attracting to itself the spurious force which may accidentally arise from advocating cosmopolitan principles or talking cosmopolitan jargon. The Tory party is nothing unless it represent and uphold the institutions of the country.”

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Źródło: Speech at Mansion House (7 August 1867), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 287

“I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.”

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Źródło: Speech of 9 November 1867.

“As for our majority… one is enough.”

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Źródło: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 64.

“The very phrase "foreign affairs" makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”

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Źródło: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 531.

“"But they deserve their wealth," he added, "nobody grudges it to them. I declare when I was eating that truffle, I felt a glow about my heart that, if it were not indigestion, I think must have been gratitude; though that is an article I had not believed in.”

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Źródło: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 23.

“If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.”

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Źródło: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 85.

“London is a roost for every bird.”

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Źródło: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 11.

“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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Źródło: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 29.

“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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Book V, Chapter 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)

“Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.”

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Book 2, chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)

“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”

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Bk. III, Ch. 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“A majority is always the best repartee.”

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Bk. II, Ch. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.”

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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1849/feb/01/address-in-answer-to-the-speech in the House of Commons (1 February 1849). <br class="br">1840s

“Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."”

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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1850/may/14/foreign-corn in the House of Commons (14 May 1850). <br class="br">1850s

“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”

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Źródło: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 17.

“A wise Government, allying itself with religion, would, as it were, consecrate society and sanctify the State. But how is this to be done? It is the problem of modern politics which has always most embarrassed statesmen. No solution of the difficulty can be found in salaried priesthoods and complicated concordats. But by the side of the State in England there has gradually arisen a majestic corporation wealthy, powerful, independent with the sanctity of a long tradition, yet sympathising with authority, and full of conciliation, even deference, to the civil power. Broadly and deeply planted in the land, mixed up with all our manners and customs, one of the main guarantees of our local government, and therefore one of the prime securities of our common liberties, the Church of England is part of our history, part of our life, part of England itself.”

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Źródło: Speech in Aylesbury (14 November 1861), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 96

“He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.”

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Speech in the House of Commons (3 June 1862)
1860s

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

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The 'Advertisement' to the 1853 edition.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)

“There is moderation even in excess.”

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Book VI, Chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)