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Quotes from Lothair — Benjamin Disraeli

1804–1881 England

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11 quotes

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

Lothair (1870)

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

Lothair (1870)

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Lothair (1870)

You know who critics are?— the men who have failed in literature and art.

Lothair (1870)

"My idea of an agreeable person," said Hugo Bohun, "is a person who agrees with me."

Lothair (1870)

When a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.

Lothair (1870)

London is a roost for every bird.

Lothair (1870)

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Lothair (1870)

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.

Lothair (1870)

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants; but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

Lothair (1870)

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Lothair (1870)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benjamin Disraeli (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.