Zdroj: Speech in the House of Lords (20 February 1877), cited 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. 994.
Benjamin Disraeli: Citáty anglicky (strana 13)
Benjamin Disraeli byl britský konzervativní politik, spisovatel, aristokrat a premiér. Citáty anglicky.
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“The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.”
Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 96. Compare: "The elegant simplicity of the three per cents", Lord Stowell, in Lives of the Lord Chancellors (Campbell), Vol. x, Chap. 212.
Zdroj: Upon hearing of the death of Napoléon, Prince Imperial of the House of Bonaparte in Africa (1879); cited in James Anthony Froude, Lord Beaconsfield (1890), p. 213.
Zdroj: Letter to a working men's club (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. 297.
Zdroj: Letter to Lord John Manners, referring to the tactics of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel (17 December 1846), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (Vol. 2) (1913), p. 337-338.
“Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.”
Isaac D'Israeli, The Curiosities of Literature, "Literary Journals".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
“In politics nothing is contemptible.”
Book VI, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1849/feb/01/address-in-answer-to-the-speech in the House of Commons (1 February 1849).
1840s
Book V, Chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)
“The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.”
Part 3, Chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
“He was fresh and full of faith that "something would turn up."”
Bk. III, Ch. 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1844/feb/16/state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate-fourth in the House of Commons (16 February 1844).
1840s
“When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.”
Bk. IV, Ch. 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
“Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.”
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1845/mar/17/agricultural-interest in the House of Commons (17 March 1845).
1840s
Zdroj: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1863/feb/05/address-to-her-majesty-on-the-lords in the House of Commons (5 February 1863).
1830s
Varianta: Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon
Zdroj: Reply to a taunt by Daniel O'Connell http://www.victorianweb.org/history/pms/dizzy.html
Zdroj: Early appearance in The Russian Mephistopheles, Hunterberg, Max, 105-106, 1909, Glasgow, John J. Rae https://archive.org/details/russianmephistop00huntiala/page/106/mode/2up,
“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”
Remark, attributed in John Gordon Stewart Drysdale and John James Drysdale, The Protoplasmic Theory of Life (1874), p. 279 (note).
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