Quote #110
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
- Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
- All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
- The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.
- When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
- Amusement to an observing mind is study.
- No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed…
- Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
- A government of statesmen or of clerks? Of Humbug or Humdrum?