11 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Emotion

Benjamin Disraeli quotes on emotion

34. In the character of the victim [Lincoln], and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.

71. 'What is care?' asked the Princess, with a smile. 'It is a god', replied the Physician, 'invisible, but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse - it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair grey'.

73. Despair is the conclusion of fools.

78. The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

80. Man is not a rational animal. He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion.

87. Fear makes us feel our humanity.

103. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

105. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

131. Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

198. I feel a very unusual sensation- if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

202. 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 grief.