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He only had one idea and that was wrong.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea and that was wrong.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Ideas Insults Intelligence On a politician

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Failure Problems Situations Strategies

Mr. Speaker, I withdraw; half the cabinet are not asses.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Government When asked to withdraw his declaration that half of the cabinet were asses

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Characteristics Communication Speech Egotism

If a traveller were informed that such a man was the leader of the House of Commons, he might begin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshipped an insect.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Government Insults On Lord John Russell

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Characteristics Agreement Good

There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Characteristics Communication Honesty Lies Statistics

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Communication Insults Speech On William Gladstone

I will not go down in posterity talking bad grammar.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Communication Reading/Writing While editing his last speech

Otto von Bismarck: The Germans have just bought a new country in Africa where Jews and pigs will be tolerated.

Disraeli: Fortunately, we are both here (in England).

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Insults People

A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Characteristics Communication Conversation People Speech Bores

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Communication Language Last words

He has committed every crime that does not require courage.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Characteristics Crime Insults About Irish politician Daniel O'Connell Courage

His smile is like the silver fittings on a coffin.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Insults On Robert Peel Smiling

Little things affect little minds.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Fools Intelligence

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Marriage

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

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Accidents Insults Problems On William Gladstone

A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Government Conservatives Hypocrisy

It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Characteristics People Bad Dishonesty Middleman

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Insults Describing his rival William Gladstone

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