Quotes About Benjamin Disraeli

out" party in politics. It was transformed into a national party under the leadership of Benjamin Disraeli. He had to devise an appeal that made the party relevant to the problems of the day. This he did: To the corpus of Conservative beliefs he added adherence to the notion of One Nation—that is, One Nation at Home and One Nation Abroad. Domestically, this meant that the party would not divide the nation in the interests of one class but would look after the interest

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

Benjamin Disraeli had anticipated Erewhon's fears in his novel Coningsby: The mystery of mysteries, he wrote, is to view machines making machines, a spectacle that fills the mind with curious and even awful speculation.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity.

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

A precedent embalms a principle.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.