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Benjamin Disraeli frasi celebri
“In realtà, noi siamo una nazione di bottegai.”
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 46, p. 172.
citato in Nicola Martella, Offensiva intorno a Gesù, vol II, Punto a croce 2000
Origine: Citato in Curzio Nitoglia, Per padre il diavolo: un'introduzione al problema ebraico secondo la tradizione cattolica, Barbarossa, 2002, p. 208.
Benjamin Disraeli Frasi e Citazioni
“La gioventù è un agire da sciocchi, la maturità una lotta, la vecchiaia un rimpianto.”
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 115, p. 170.
“La delusione della maturità segue l'illusione della gioventù.”
Origine: Citato in Focus n. 67, p. 169.
“[Ultime parole famose, nel 1858] Il canale di Suez? Assolutamente impossibile da realizzare.”
Origine: Citato in Focus n. 97, p. 188.
“Quel che è delitto fra la moltitudine è soltanto un vizio fra i pochi.”
da Tancred, or the New Crusade, 1847
“Tutto è razza e non c'è altra verità.”
1847, vol. I, p. 169; citato in Losurdo 2005, p. 267
“Un governo conservatore è ipocrisia organizzata.”
dal discorso alla Camera dei Comuni del 17 marzo 1845
“Un politico usa i dati come un ubriaco il lampione: non per la luce ma per il sostegno.”
Origine: Citato in La settimana enigmistica, n. 4102, pag. 12
Benjamin Disraeli: Frasi in inglese
“As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”
Origine: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 36.
Book V, Chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“Life is too short to be little.”
Origine: Coningsby, or, The New Generation
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, pt. 10, ch. 3.
Books
“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
“He has not a single redeeming defect.”
On William Ewart Gladstone; attributed in William S. Walsh, Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1892), p. 357.
Sourced but undated
The Infernal Marriage, part 3 (1834).
Books
Letter to Lady Chesterfield (22 December 1880), quoted in the Marquis of Zetland (ed.), The Letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield. Vol. II, 1876 to 1881 (London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929), p. 305.
1880s
“There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.”
Origine: Letter to Constituents (3 October 1868), cited in Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Collected from his Writings and Speeches (1881), p. 110.
“Never take anything for granted.”
Speech at Salthill (5 October 1864).
1860s
“Nothing is going on, but everybody is afraid of something.”
Origine: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 2.
Origine: Letter to Lord Grey de Wilton (3 October 1873), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 5 (1920), p. 262.
“They that touch pitch will be defiled.”
Actually spoken by Dogberry in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (III.3). The KJV Bible (Ecclesiasticus 13:1) has "He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith".
Misattributed
“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
Variante: The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Book VI, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Address to the electors of Buckinghamshire (25 May 1847), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 838.
1840s
“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.”
Book VI, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Reported as a misattribution in Bernard Glassman, Benjamin Disraeli: The Fabricated Jew in Myth and Memory (2003), p. 185.
Misattributed
Origine: Letter to Lady Chesterfield (19 July 1880), quoted in the Marquis of Zetland (ed.), The Letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield. Vol. II, 1876 to 1881 (London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929), p. 282.
“Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe.”
Isaac D'Israeli, The Curiosities of Literature, "Men of Genius Deficient in Conversation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
“Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”
Book 6, chapter 24.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)
Sidonia speaking
Book 4, Chap. 15.
Books, Coningsby (1844)
“All is race, there is no other truth.”
Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography (1852), p. 331.
1850s
Origine: Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1862/aug/01/the-administration-of-viscount in the House of Commons (1 August 1862).
Origine: 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.
