“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.”
Book VI, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Benjamin Disraeli: Citáty anglicky
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Reported as a misattribution in Bernard Glassman, Benjamin Disraeli: The Fabricated Jew in Myth and Memory (2003), p. 185.
Misattributed
Zdroj: Letter to Lady Chesterfield (19 July 1880), quoted in the Marquis of Zetland (ed.), The Letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield. Vol. II, 1876 to 1881 (London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929), p. 282.
“Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe.”
Isaac D'Israeli, The Curiosities of Literature, "Men of Genius Deficient in Conversation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
“Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”
Book 6, chapter 24.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)
Sidonia speaking
Book 4, Chap. 15.
Books, Coningsby (1844)
“All is race, there is no other truth.”
Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography (1852), p. 331.
1850s
Zdroj: Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1862/aug/01/the-administration-of-viscount in the House of Commons (1 August 1862).
Zdroj: Speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland (29 October 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. 289.
“You know who critics are?— the men who have failed in literature and art.”
Zdroj: 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.”
Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 70.
Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography (1852), p. 496.
1850s
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.
Sourced but undated
Zdroj: 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.”
Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 36.
“There is no index of character so sure as the voice.”
Bk. II, Ch. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
“Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.”
Zdroj: 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.”
Book III, Chapter 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Zdroj: 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