Disraeli Quotes

Benjamin Disraeli: [Speaking of Bismarck] Look out for that man. He means what he says.

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Benjamin Disraeli: [On his political success] I've climbed to the top of the greasy pole.

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Benjamin Disraeli: I may commit many follies, but I never intend to marry for love, which I'm sure is a guarantee of unhappiness.

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Benjamin Disraeli: ...I am never more serious than when I'm joking.

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Benjamin Disraeli: A man who never makes jokes is a standing joke to the world.

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Benjamin Disraeli: One thing I have learned from Russia - you gain nothing from them by conciliation and concession.

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Benjamin Disraeli: I tell you, a ferment is at work all over the world. Titanic forces are unchained in America, forces you have no conception of. The spirit of nationality is aroused in France, in Italy, in Germany! New wine has been poured into old bottles, and an explosion must follow sooner or later. I shall not live to see it, but I hear the seething of the yeast.

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Benjamin Disraeli: A man who never makes jokes is a standing joke to the world.

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Benjamin Disraeli: Behold! Winter hand in hand with spring. Innocence with...

Lord Charles Deeford: [interrupts] Guile?

Benjamin Disraeli: Experience. Same thing.

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Benjamin Disraeli: There are days when I feel I could guide the destinies of nations.

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Benjamin Disraeli: Behold! Winter hand in hand with spring. Innocence with...

Lord Charles Deeford: [interrupts] Guile?

Benjamin Disraeli: Experience. Same thing.

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Benjamin Disraeli: War is never a solution. It's an aggravation.

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Benjamin Disraeli: War is never a solution. It's an aggravation.

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Bulwer: The pose, my Dear Ben, the pose. The pose is everything in in society. It is not what you are but what you seem to be that matters - like a traveling salesman.

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Lady Clarissa Pevensey: Why do you dislike Mr. Disraeli so much?

Lord Charles Deeford: I neither like him nor dislike him. He's nothing to me.

Lady Clarissa Pevensey: Don't you feel lonely?

Lord Charles Deeford: Lonely?

Lady Clarissa Pevensey: You're the only man in all the world who neither likes nor dislikes Mr. Disraeli.

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Lady Clarissa Pevensey: Why do you dislike Mr. Disraeli so much?
Lord Charles Deeford: I neither like him nor dislike him. He's nothing to me.
Lady Clarissa Pevensey: Don't you feel lonely?
Lord Charles Deeford: Lonely?
Lady Clarissa Pevensey: You're the only man in all the world who neither likes nor dislikes Mr. Disraeli.

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Lady Clarissa Pevensey: Why do you dislike Mr. Disraeli so much?

Lord Charles Deeford: I neither like him nor dislike him. He's nothing to me.

Lady Clarissa Pevensey: Don't you feel lonely?

Lord Charles Deeford: Lonely?

Lady Clarissa Pevensey: You're the only man in all the world who neither likes nor dislikes Mr. Disraeli.

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Lady Mary Beaconsfield: She thinks you're the greatest man in the world, and she's right.

Benjamin Disraeli: Quite right!

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Lord Charles Deeford: I do not discuss politics with women.

Benjamin Disraeli: I do.

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Lord Charles Deeford: I do not discuss politics with women.

Benjamin Disraeli: I do.

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Lord George Bentinck: Why do you wear all these... uh, chains, hmmm? Are you practicing to be Lord Mayor or something?

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Sarah Disraeli: If you treat me like one of your London ladies, I'll pull your ears and break your hobby horse.

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