Benjamin Disraeli, 1. Earl of Beaconsfield , war ein konservativer britischer Staatsmann und erfolgreicher Romanschriftsteller. Zweimal, 1868 und von 1874 bis 1880, bekleidete er das Amt des britischen Premierministers. Wikipedia
„Nein, besser nicht. Sie wird mich nur bitten, Albert eine Nachricht zu bringen.“
Letzte Worte, 19. April 1881; er lehnte ein Angebot der Königin Viktoria ab, ihn zu besuchen; gemeint war Viktorias verstorbener Mann Albert von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha
Original engl.: "No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert." - Fred R. Shapiro: The Yale book of quotations, Yale University Press 2006, Seite 208, zitiert nach Robert Blake: Disraeli, 1966
Benjamin Disraeli buch Coningsby
Romanfigur Sidonia zu Romanfigur Coningsby, im Roman Coningsby oder die neue Generation, Ins Deutsche übertragen von August Kretzschmar, Verlags-Comptoir Grimma 1845,
Original: (en) So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Quelle: Coningsby, Buch 4, Kapitel 15, 1844
„Es gibt drei Arten von Lügen: Lügen, verdammte Lügen und Statistiken.“
Diesen Ausspruch schreibt ihm fälschlich Mark Twain in seiner Autobiographie zu. Tatsächlich von Leonard Henry Courtney 1895. york.ac.uk http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm <br class="br">Original engl.: "There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies, and statistics." <br class="br">Fälschlich zugeschrieben
Quelle: Speech to a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge, attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an "insane covenant" (27 July 1878), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), pp. 1228-9.
Quelle: Speech to the annual meeting of the Royal and Central Bucks Agricultural Association in Aylesbury (20 September 1876), quoted in 'Lord Beaconsfield At Aylesbury', The Times (21 September 1876), p. 6.
“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i (1839).
Books
Bk. V, Ch. 5.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1855/mar/26/newspaper-stamp-duties-bill in the House of Commons (26 March 1855). <br class="br">1850s
“His Christianity was muscular.”
Quelle: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 14.
“Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.”
Part 1, Chapter 8. Compare: "La Nature a été en eux forte que l'éducation" (translated: "Nature was a stronger force in them than education"), Voltaire, Vie de Molière.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
“The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.”
Book I, Chapter 9.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Quelle: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1848/jun/05/expulsion-of-the-british-ambassador-from in the House of Commons (5 June 1848).
“Amusement to an observing mind is study.”
Part 1, Chapter 23.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
Quelle: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1848/aug/30/business-of-the-session in the House of Commons (30 August 1848).
“I rather like bad wine," said Mr. Mountchesney; "one gets so bored with good wine.”
Book 1, chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Sybil (1845)
“An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.”
Quelle: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 37.
Quelle: Speech at banquet given by the city of Glasgow to Disraeli on his inauguration as Lord Rector of Glasgow University (19 November 1870), cited in Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Collected from his Writings and Speeches (1881), p. 16.
“A series of congratulatory regrets.”
Quelle: Lord Hartington's Resolutions on the Berlin Treaty (30 July 1878).
Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography (1852), pp. 324-325.
1850s
Cited in Gwendolen Cecil, Life of Robert Marquis of Salisbury: 1868-1880, Vol. 2. (1921), p. 205.
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“When a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.”
Quelle: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 28.
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1854/mar/31/war-with-russia-the-queens-message in the House of Commons (21 March 1854). <br class="br">1850s
“Man is not a rational animal. He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion.”
Book 6, chapter 12.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)
“The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.”
Quelle: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 17.
Book I, Chapter 10.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Book I, Chapter 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)
Address to the electors of Buckinghamshire (25 May 1847), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 837.
1840s
Letter to Lord Salisbury (27 December 1880), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 1468.
1880s
Quelle: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1871/jul/28/parliament-order-of-business in the House of Commons (28 July 1871).
Letter to Lady Londonderry (22 February 1854), in Benjamin Disraeli, Letters: 1852-1856 (1997), p. 405.
1850s
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1845/apr/11/maynooth-college in the House of Commons (11 April 1845). <br class="br">1840s
“Time is the great physician.”
Book 6, chapter 9.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)
Quelle: Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1865/mar/13/defences-of-canada-colonel-jervois#column_1572 in the House of Commons (13 March 1865).
