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„Nein, besser nicht. Sie wird mich nur bitten, Albert eine Nachricht zu bringen.“

Benjamin Disraeli

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

„Du siehst also, lieber Coningsby, dass die Welt von ganz anderen Personen regiert wird als diejenigen es sich vorstellen, die nicht hinter den Kulissen stehen.“

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.“

Benjamin Disraeli

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
Original engl.: "There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies, and statistics."
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„Die Tat bringt nicht immer Glück, aber es ist kein Glück ohne Taten.“

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“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.”

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Quelle: Speech in the House of Lords (20 February 1877), cited 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. 994.

“Without tact you can learn nothing.”

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Quelle: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 61.

“The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.”

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Quelle: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 96. Compare: "The elegant simplicity of the three per cents", Lord Stowell, in Lives of the Lord Chancellors (Campbell), Vol. x, Chap. 212.

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

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Quelle: Upon hearing of the death of Napoléon, Prince Imperial of the House of Bonaparte in Africa (1879); cited in James Anthony Froude, Lord Beaconsfield (1890), p. 213.

“None are so interested in maintaining the institutions of the country as the working classes. The rich and the powerful will not find much difficulty under any circumstances in maintaining their rights, but the privileges of the people can only be defended and secured by popular institutions.”

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Quelle: Letter to a working men's club (1867), 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. 297.

“He is so vain that he wants to figure in history as the settler of all the great questions; but a Parliamentary constitution is not favorable to such ambitions; things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.”

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Quelle: Letter to Lord John Manners, referring to the tactics of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel (17 December 1846), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (Vol. 2) (1913), p. 337-338.

“Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.”

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Isaac D'Israeli, The Curiosities of Literature, "Literary Journals".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli

“In politics nothing is contemptible.”

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Book VI, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

“But this principle of race is unfortunately one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.”

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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1849/feb/01/address-in-answer-to-the-speech in the House of Commons (1 February 1849).
1840s

“If a man be gloomy, let him keep to himself. No one has a right to go croaking about society, or, what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”

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Book V, Chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)

“The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.”

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Part 3, Chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)

“He was fresh and full of faith that "something would turn up."”

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Bk. III, Ch. 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“Manners are easy," said Coningsby, "and life is hard.”

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Book 3, Chap. 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844)

“That dense population in extreme distress inhabited an island where there was an established church which was not their church; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom lived in distant capitals. Thus they had a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That was the Irish question.”

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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1844/feb/16/state-of-ireland-adjourned-debate-fourth in the House of Commons (16 February 1844).
1840s

“When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.”

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Bk. IV, Ch. 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.”

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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1845/mar/17/agricultural-interest in the House of Commons (17 March 1845).
1840s

“Before the civil war commenced, the United States of America were colonies, and we should not forget that such communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.”

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Quelle: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1863/feb/05/address-to-her-majesty-on-the-lords in the House of Commons (5 February 1863).

“Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.”

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1830s
Variante: Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon
Quelle: Reply to a taunt by Daniel O'Connell http://www.victorianweb.org/history/pms/dizzy.html
Quelle: Early appearance in The Russian Mephistopheles, Hunterberg, Max, 105-106, 1909, Glasgow, John J. Rae https://archive.org/details/russianmephistop00huntiala/page/106/mode/2up,

“Our morals differ in different counties, in different towns, in different streets, even in different Acts of Parliament. What is moral in London is immoral in Montacute; what is crime among the multitude is only vice among the few.”

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Benjamin Disraeli buch Tancred

Tancred, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”

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Remark, attributed in John Gordon Stewart Drysdale and John James Drysdale, The Protoplasmic Theory of Life (1874), p. 279 (note).
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“I say, then, assuming, as I have given you reason to assume, that the price of wheat, when this system is established, ranges in England at 35s. per quarter, and other grain in proportion, this is not a question of rent, but it is a question of displacing the labour of England that produces corn, in order, on an extensive and even universal scale, to permit the entrance into this country of foreign corn produced by foreign labour. Will that displaced labour find new employment? … But what are the resources of this kind of industry to employ and support the people, supposing the great depression in agricultural produce occur which is feared—that this great revolution, as it has appropriately been called, takes place—that we cease to be an agricultural people—what are the resources that would furnish employment to two-thirds of the subverted agricultural population—in fact, from 3,500,000 to 4,000,000 of people? Assume that the workshop of the world principle is carried into effect—assume that the attempt is made to maintain your system, both financial and domestic, on the resources of the cotton trade—assume that, in spite of hostile tariffs, that already gigantic industry is doubled…you would only find increased employment for 300,000 of your population…What must be the consequence? I think we have pretty good grounds for anticipating social misery and political disaster.”

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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1846/may/15/corn-importation-bill-adjourned-debate in the House of Commons (15 May 1846).
1840s

“To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.”

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Letter to his father from Malta (25 August 1830), cited in Lord Beaconsfield's Letters, 1830-1852 (1882), p. 32
1830s

“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”

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Benjamin Disraeli buch Tancred

Tancred, Chapter 46.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.”

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Quelle: Letter to Mrs. Sarah Brydges Willyams (17 October 1863), 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. 73

“Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.”

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In a letter to Matthew Arnold, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen (1987), p. 412.
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“Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.”

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Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Quotation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli

“A man's fate is his own temper.”

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Book VI, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”

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A Welsh triad cited in A Vindication of the Genuineness of the Ancient British Poems of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and Merdin (1803), by Sharon Turner, reads, "The three pillars of learning; seeing much, suffering much, and studying much". This was quoted from Turner by Isaac D'Israeli in his The Amenities of Literature (1841) and, through the confusion of father with son, has come to be falsely attributed to Benjamin Disraeli.
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“If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”

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Attributed to Edmund Burke, to William Gerard Hamilton, to George Bernard Shaw, to John F. Kennedy (who quoted it) and to Benjamin Disraeli, it was actually said by Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland in a speech in the House of Commons on 1641-11-22.
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