The Infernal Marriage, part 3 (1834).
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“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
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Tancred
Bk. IV, Ch. 8.
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
Source: Speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland (29 October 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. 289.
“There is no index of character so sure as the voice.”
Bk. II, Ch. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”
Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Quotation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
Variant: The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, pt. 10, ch. 3.
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“The palace is not safe, when the cottage is not happy.”
Speech to Wynyard Horticultural Show (1848), 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. 709.
1840s
“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
Book VIII, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1860/jan/24/address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-speech in the House of Commons (24 January 1860); see also Lord Byron, "Notes to Canto II" (1812), Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct".
1860s
Variant: How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”
Part 5, Chapter 18.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
Part 1, Chapter 13; sometimes paraphrased: "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
“I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New.”
Cited in Herbert Henry Asquith, Letters of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith to a Friend, Vol. 2 (1933), p. 94.
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Context: Miss Sands told me that Queen Victoria, who was latterly éprise with Disraeli, one day asked him what was his real religion. "Madam," he replied, "I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New."
“The microcosm of a public school.”
Book I, Chapter 2.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.”
Isaac D'Isaeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Of Suppressors and Dilapidators of Manuscripts".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli