Benjamin Disraeli citáty

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„Skutky nemusia vždy priniesť šťastie, ale bez skutkov niet šťastia.“

„Kúzlo prvej lásky je v tom, že neveríme, že niekedy skončí.“

„Najväčším dobrom, ktoré môžete urobiť pre druhého, je nielen podeliť sa s ním o svoje bohatstvo, ale odhaliť mu jeho vlastné.“

„Nevedomosť nikdy nevyrieši otázku.“

„Tajomstvo úspechu v živote spočíva v tom, aby bol človek pripravený na svoju príležitosť, keď príde.“

„Všetci sme sa narodili preto, aby sme milovali. Láska je zmyslom nášho života a naším jediným cieľom.“

„Láska je zmysel nášho života a jeho jediný cieľ.“

„Tajomstvom úspechu je účelná vytrvalosť.“

„Trpezlivosť je nevyhnutná vlastnosť génia.“

„Existujú tri druhy klamstiev: klamstvá, prekliate klamstvá a štatistiky.“

„Niet šťastia bez činnosti.“

„Chyby veľkých sú radosťou ľudí malých.“

„Múdrosť múdrych a skúsenosť vekov možno zachovať citovaním.“

„Nikdy sa neospravedlňujte za prejavenie pocitov. Keď tak urobíte, ospravedlníte sa za pravdu.“

„Mnohí ľudia vďaka vytrvalosti uspeli vo veciach, ktoré sa zdali byť odsúdené na neúspech.“

„Ako všetci veľkí cestovatelia som videl viac, ako si pamätám, a pamätám si viac, ako som videl.“

“As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”

“Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.”

“Life is too short to be little.”

“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”

“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”

“The palace is not safe, when the cottage is not happy.”

“He has not a single redeeming defect.”

“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”

“I receive letters every day asking me to write a manifesto and make a speech; that I am the only man who could do so with effect; and all that. Why should I? I warned the country about Ireland before the General Election and told them to be vigilant, or there would be something happen there, "worse even than famine or pestilence". It has happened. And there have been elections since the Irish Revolution in England, Wales and Scotland, and they have supported the policy of imbecility and treason that has brought about all this disaster.”

“There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.”

“Never take anything for granted.”

“Nothing is going on, but everybody is afraid of something.”

“For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.”

“They that touch pitch will be defiled.”

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”

“I repeat that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.”

“It is unnecessary for me to state that I shall support all those measures, the object of which is to elevate the moral and social condition of the Working Classes, by lessening their hours of toil—by improving their means of health—and by cultivating their intelligence. These are objects which, it is not unpleasing for me to remember, I endeavoured, in common with some of my friends, to advance, before they engaged the attention of Governments, or were supported by triumphant Parliamentary majorities.”

“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.”

“Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James, and one for you, Lionel. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him to do; and to Bismark will be suggested such an intoxicating programme as to make him our abject slave.”

“Here everything is dark. A series of storms has destroyed all our hopes which were full of promise. A plentiful hay harvest drowned and the finest wheat the farmers have had for years all laid. It is a scene of ravage, of havoc like a conquered country. It is the last drop in the bitter cup which the landed interest will have to swallow. … As for politics, Gladstone will be as fatal to the aristocracy as the weather; and if he were younger the Crown would not be safe.”

“Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe.”

“Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”

“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”

“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.”

“All is race, there is no other truth.”

“To build up a community, not upon Liberal opinions, which any man may fashion to his fancy, but upon popular principles, which assert equal rights, civil and religious; to uphold the institutions of the country because they are the embodiment of the wants and wishes of the nation, and protect us alike from individual tyranny and popular outrage; equally to resist democracy and oligarchy; and favour that principle of free aristocracy which is the only basis and security for constitutional government; to be vigilant to guard and prompt to vindicate the honour of the country, but to hold aloof from that turbulent diplomacy which only distracts the mind of a people from internal improvement; to lighten taxation; frugally but wisely to administer the public treasure; to favour popular education, because it is the best guarantee for public order; to defend local government; and to be as jealous of the rights of the working man as of the prerogatives of the Crown and the privileges of the Senate—these were once the principles which regulated Tory statesmen, and I for one have no wish that the Tory party should ever be in power unless they practise them.”

“I had to prepare the mind of the country, and to educate…our party. … I had to prepare the mind of Parliament and the country on this question of Reform.”