More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. What strikes me most singular in you is, that you are fonder of Power than of Fame.
  2. The present man will do well, and will be particularly loyal and anxious to please me in every way. He is vy. peculiar, but vy. clever and …
  3. The downfall of Beaconfieldism is like the vanishing of some vast magnificent castle in an Italian romance.
  4. In whatever he has written he has affected something which has been intended to strike his readers as uncommon and therefore grand. Because…
  5. In death he remains as he was in life. All show with no substance.
  6. Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.
  7. He was quite remarkable enough to fill a volume of Eloge. Someone wrote to me yesterday that no Jew for 1800 years has played so great a pa…
  8. ...a man who is never beaten. Every reverse, every defeat is to him only an admonition to wait and catch his opportunity of retrieving his …

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