Quote #204

It would have been a good dinner, if The soup had been as warm as the champagne or The beef had been as rare as the service or The brandy had been as old as the woman on his left or The woman on his right had been as Hansom as the cab he took home.

More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. Life is too short to be small.
  2. If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.
  3. Many thanks: I shall lose no time in reading it.
  4. If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled g…
  5. Moderation is the centre wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
  6. I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
  7. Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
  8. I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

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