Benjamin Disraeli on Art
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, entry #71853: "Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing."
Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, entry #88644: "I had to prepare the mind of the country, and to educate...our party. ... I had to prepare the mind of Parliament and the country on this question of Reform."
9 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli on Art
"Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing."
"I had to prepare the mind of the country, and to educate...our party. ... I had to prepare the mind of Parliament and the country on this question of Reform."
"Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England."
"I am not ashamed or afraid to say that I wish more sympathy had been shown on both sides towards the Chartists. ... I am not ashamed to say that I sympathise with millions of my fellow-subjects."
"A majority is always the best repartee."
"He is so vain that he wants to figure in history as the settler of all the great questions; but a Parliamentary constitution is not favorable to such ambitions; things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools."
"Cathedral High Mass. Clouds of incense and one of Mozart's sublimest masses by an orchestra before which San Carlo might grow pale. The effect inconceivably grand. The host raised, and I flung myself on the ground."
"What, then, was that policy? It was a policy of conditional neutrality. Under the circumstances of the case we did not believe that it was for the honour or interest of England or Turkey that we should take any part in the impending contest; but while we enforced the neutrality which we prepared to observe, we declared at the same time that that neutrality must cease if British interests were assailed or menaced. Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own, have denounced this policy as a selfish policy. My Lord Mayor, it is as selfish as patriotism."
"I look upon the Whigs as an anti-national party. ... Believing that the policy of the party was such as must destroy the honour of the kingdom abroad and the happiness of the people at home, I considered it my duty to oppose the Whigs, to ensure their discomfiture, and, if possible, their destruction."