6 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Culture

Benjamin Disraeli quotes on culture

55. King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

102. The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

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110. The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

123. A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

159. London is a modern Babylon.

188. A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasties.