Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1846/may/15/corn-importation-bill-adjourned-debate in the House of Commons (15 May 1846).
1840s
Benjamin Disraeli: Citáty anglicky (strana 14)
Benjamin Disraeli byl britský konzervativní politik, spisovatel, aristokrat a premiér. Citáty anglicky.
Benjamin Disraeli:
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“To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.”
Letter to his father from Malta (25 August 1830), cited in Lord Beaconsfield's Letters, 1830-1852 (1882), p. 32
1830s
“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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Tancred
Tancred, Chapter 46.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
“At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.”
Zdroj: Letter to Mrs. Sarah Brydges Willyams (17 October 1863), 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. 73
“Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.”
In a letter to Matthew Arnold, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen (1987), p. 412.
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Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Quotation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
A Welsh triad cited in A Vindication of the Genuineness of the Ancient British Poems of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and Merdin (1803), by Sharon Turner, reads, "The three pillars of learning; seeing much, suffering much, and studying much". This was quoted from Turner by Isaac D'Israeli in his The Amenities of Literature (1841) and, through the confusion of father with son, has come to be falsely attributed to Benjamin Disraeli.
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“If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”
Attributed to Edmund Burke, to William Gerard Hamilton, to George Bernard Shaw, to John F. Kennedy (who quoted it) and to Benjamin Disraeli, it was actually said by Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland in a speech in the House of Commons on 1641-11-22.
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Zdroj: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1871/aug/08/third-reading in the House of Commons (8 August 1871).
Bk. V, Ch. 5.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
Part 1, Chapter 21.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
Book II, Chapter 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”
Upon being asked to offer the young son of a member of Parliament advice, cited in Wilfrid Meynell, Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography (1903), p. 83.
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Zdroj: Letter to Sir William Miles (11 June 1860), 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), pp. 23–24
Varianta: The question is this— Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
Varianta: Is man an ape or an angel? Now, I am on the side of the angels!
Zdroj: Speech at Oxford Diocesan Conference (25 November 1864), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (1929), p. 108
“[I]n speaking of Italy, romance has omitted for once to exaggerate.”
Zdroj: Letter to Isaac Disraeli (2 September 1826), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (1929), p. 104
Zdroj: Letter to Queen Victoria (18 November 1875), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (1929), p. 783