Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Legacy

9 quotes

  1. The legacy of heroes - the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

  2. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

  3. He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

  4. When a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.

  5. I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

  6. Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

  7. Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

  8. In death he remains as he was in life. All show with no substance.

  9. The downfall of Beaconfieldism is like the vanishing of some vast magnificent castle in an Italian romance.

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