Disraeli Quotes

• Las cifras a menudo me engañan, sobre todo cuando yo mismo me encargo de ordenarlas; en ese caso, la observación atribuida a Disraeli se aplicaría a menudo con justicia y fuerza: "Hay tres clases de mentiras: mentiras, malditas mentiras y estadísticas".

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Lying, Humorous

  La autobiografía de Mark Twain Capítulo 29

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• Un miembro del Parlamento a Disraeli: 'Señor, usted morirá en la horca o de alguna enfermedad incalificable'. Eso depende, señor", dijo Disraeli, "de si acepto su política o a su amante".

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mistress, Disease, Embrace

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• You read what Disraeli had to say. I don't remember what he said. He said something. He's no longer with us.

  Bob Dole

  Remember, Said

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• Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

  Dorothy Parker

  Eye, Phrases, Stories

  Dorothy Parker (1970). "Un mes de sábados: treinta y una piezas célebres de "Lector Constante"".

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• Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them.

  Raymond Postgate

  Scotch, Important, Sometimes

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• Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

  Michael Foot

  Simple, Favourite, Gladstone

  "Michael Foot: key quotes" by Richard Nelsson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Cowboy, Would Be, May

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• There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Ambition, History, Office

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• Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and respected him deeply... His unscrupulous past and cynical opportunism were being largely forgotten or forgiven. He was gradually becoming recognized not only as the prophet of a new Conservatism, at once compassionate at home and positive abroad, but as a great statesmen whom the Queen did well to honour. Power had brought responsibility. By 1878 the transformation in public attitudes towards Disraeli was complete.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Queens, Attitude, Responsibility

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• Cuando salí del comedor después de sentarme junto al Sr. Gladstone, pensé que era el hombre más inteligente de Inglaterra. Pero después de sentarme junto al Sr. Disraeli, pensé que era la mujer más inteligente de Inglaterra.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Dining, Sitting

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