Tag: Benjamin Disraeli

Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli

After you’ve read enough sexbot articles on Drudge maybe switch to something interesting

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

Benjamin Disraeli

After you’ve read enough sexbot articles on Drudge maybe switch to something interesting

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

Benjamin Disraeli

After you’ve read enough sexbot articles on Drudge maybe switch to something interesting

“I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”

Benjamin Disraeli

I succeed at the third, I try for the first but unfortunately the Progressives won’t allow the second.  Everything they do is an unkind story.

“The tone and tendency of liberalism…is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.”

Benjamin Disraeli

This could have been written yesterday instead of 150 years ago.

“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”

Benjamin Disraeli

I take this to mean when all the lies have finally come due they’ll at last fall back on the awful truth.

“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”

Benjamin Disraeli

I understand this to mean that half-way measures in a desperate situation are useless and I agree.