To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence. Benjamin Disraeli More Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli More Quotes From Benjamin Disraeli We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow. Benjamin Disraeli leadership age people A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. Benjamin Disraeli acquaintance classic book Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. Benjamin Disraeli progress change should-have The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. Benjamin Disraeli debate noble lord You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. Benjamin Disraeli volcanoes exhausted flames London is a modern Babylon. Benjamin Disraeli modern babylon london A person's fate is their own temper. Benjamin Disraeli temperament temper fate A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears. Benjamin Disraeli beautiful mean hands I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. Benjamin Disraeli grammar luck talking Life is to short to be small. Benjamin Disraeli life-is-short personality life-is That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house. Benjamin Disraeli flirting house country There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it. Benjamin Disraeli flirting existence young No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood. Benjamin Disraeli confused keys men It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England. Benjamin Disraeli determination country people Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. Benjamin Disraeli politics political funny Protection is not a principle but an expedient Benjamin Disraeli protection principles Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. Benjamin Disraeli carriages ballet dancing That fatal drollery called a representative government. Benjamin Disraeli representative-government representatives government If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Benjamin Disraeli historical reading knowledge The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. Benjamin Disraeli discipline political success
