Quotes

“The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.” Benjamin Disraeli

“My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.” Benjamin Disraeli

“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.” Benjamin Disraeli

“The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.” Benjamin Disraeli

“King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.” Benjamin Disraeli

“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The soul is healed by being with children.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If there is no God, everything is permitted.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Realists do not fear the results of their study.” Fyodor Dostoevsky