Frases de Benjamin Disraeli

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“La juventud es un disparate; la madurez, una lucha; la vejez, un remordimiento.”

“Hay personas divertidas que no interesan, y personas interesantes que no divierten.”

“Hay personas silenciosas que son mucho más interesantes que los mejores oradores.”

“La alegría del primer amor es nuestro desconocimiento de que puede tener fin.”

“Nada revela tan fiablemente el carácter de una persona como su voz.”

“La variedad es la madre del placer.”

“Nunca discutir. Si en sociedad alguna persona difiere de tu modo de pensar, cambia de conversación.”

“¿Sabéis quienes son los críticos? Aquellos que fracasaron en la literatura y en las artes.”

“La sabiduría de los sabios y la experiencia de los siglos pueden conservarse en citas.”

“Lo mejor que podemos hacer por otro no es sólo compartir con él nuestras riquezas, sino mostrarles las suyas y descubrir la nuestra.”

“No hay otra educación como la adversidad.”

“Piensa antes de hacer, pero no te pases tanto tiempo pensando que no llegues a empezar.”

“Triunfar tarde no es triunfar: es alcanzar al mismo tiempo la inmortalidad y la muerte.”

“Mi idea de una persona agradable es una persona que está de acuerdo conmigo”

“En política, los experimentos significan revolución.”

“La ciencia es para el mundo moderno lo que el arte fue para el antiguo.”

“La fortuna, el éxito, la gloria el poder pueden aumentar la felicidad, pero no darla. Sólo el cariño da la dicha.”

“La vida es demasiado corta para que la hagamos mezquina.”

“Los críticos son los hombres que han fracasado en la literatura y las artes.”

“Los viajes enseñan la tolerancia.”

“El que ostenta el poder es siempre impopular.”

“El hombre no es el creador de las circunstancias, más bien las circunstancias crean al hombre.”

“Como puedes ver, mi querido Coningsby, el mundo está gobernado por personajes muy distintos a los que se imaginan aquellos que no están detrás del telón.”

“Hasta en el exceso existe una moderación.”

“La ignorancia nunca da por terminadas las cuestiones.”

“La magia del primer amor consiste en nuestra ignorancia de que pueda tener fin.”

“La moderación es también un exceso.”

“Las torpezas de la juventud son preferibles a los aciertos de la vejez.”

“Lo más importante en la vida, después de saber cuándo aprovechar una oportunidad, es saber cuándo prescindir de una ventaja.”

“Lo que prevemos, raramente ocurre; lo que menos esperamos es lo que sucede generalmente.”

“Lo verdaderamente mágico de nuestro primer amor es la absoluta ignorancia de que alguna vez ha de terminar.”

“Los experimentos en política significan revoluciones.”

“Los jóvenes de una nación son los depositarios de la posteridad.”

“Ningún gobierno puede mantenerse sólido mucho tiempo sin una oposición temible.”

“No siempre la acción tiene felicidad, pero no hay acción sin felicidad.”

“Ser consciente de la propia ignorancia es un gran paso hacia el saber.”

“Todas las mujeres deberían casarse, los hombres no.”

“El secreto del éxito es la constancia en el propósito.”

“El éxito es hijo de la audacia.”

“Como todos los grandes viajeros, yo he visto más cosas de las que recuerdo, y recuerdo más cosas de las que he visto.”

“Alimentad el espíritu con grandes pensamientos. La fe en un heroísmo hace los héroes.”

“The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.”

“The Jews represent the Semitic principle; all that is spiritual in our nature. They are the trustees of tradition, and the conservators of the religious element. They are a living and the most striking evidence of the falsity of that pernicious doctrine of modern times, the natural equality of man. The political equality of a particular race is a matter of municipal arrangement and depends entirely on political considerations and circumstances; but the natural equality of man now in vogue, and taking the form of cosmopolitan fraternity, is a principle which, were it possible to act on it, would deteriorate the great races and destroy all the genius of the world. What would be the consequence on the great Anglo-Saxon republic, for example, were its citizens to secede from their sound principle of reserve, and mingle with their negro and coloured populations? In the course of time they would become so deteriorated that their states would probably be reconquered and regained by the aborigines whom they have expelled and who would then be their superiors.”

“If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.”

“My Lords, the key of India is not Merv, or Herat, or Candahar. The key of India is London. The majesty of sovereignty, the spirit and vigour of your Parliaments, the inexhaustible resources of a free, an ingenious, and a determined people—these are the keys of India.”

“The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.”

“There is no index of character so sure as the voice.”

“Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.”

“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”

“For what is the Tory party unless it represents national feeling? If it does not represent national feeling, Toryism is nothing. It does not depend upon hereditary coteries of exclusive nobles. It does not attempt power by attracting to itself the spurious force which may accidentally arise from advocating cosmopolitan principles or talking cosmopolitan jargon. The Tory party is nothing unless it represent and uphold the institutions of the country.”

“I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.”

“As for our majority… one is enough.”

“The very phrase "foreign affairs" makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”

“"But they deserve their wealth," he added, "nobody grudges it to them. I declare when I was eating that truffle, I felt a glow about my heart that, if it were not indigestion, I think must have been gratitude; though that is an article I had not believed in.”

“If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.”

“London is a roost for every bird.”

“Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine- tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.”

“A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.”

“Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.”

“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”

“A majority is always the best repartee.”

“But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.”

“Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."”

“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”

“A wise Government, allying itself with religion, would, as it were, consecrate society and sanctify the State. But how is this to be done? It is the problem of modern politics which has always most embarrassed statesmen. No solution of the difficulty can be found in salaried priesthoods and complicated concordats. But by the side of the State in England there has gradually arisen a majestic corporation wealthy, powerful, independent with the sanctity of a long tradition, yet sympathising with authority, and full of conciliation, even deference, to the civil power. Broadly and deeply planted in the land, mixed up with all our manners and customs, one of the main guarantees of our local government, and therefore one of the prime securities of our common liberties, the Church of England is part of our history, part of our life, part of England itself.”

“He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.”

“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”

“There is moderation even in excess.”

“We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.”

“You have despoiled Churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybody's affairs. You have criticized every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform tomorrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.”