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.
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole! - Benjamin Disraeli
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
- Benjamin Disraeli
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. - Benjamin Disraeli
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. - Benjamin Disraeli
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. - Benjamin Disraeli
The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'. - Benjamin Disraeli
Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.
There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli
There is no gambling like politics.
A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor. - Benjamin Disraeli
A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter. - Benjamin Disraeli
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. - Benjamin Disraeli
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
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