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Famous Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconfield), statesman, novelist and British prime minister was born on December 21, 1804. He was Prime Minister of Great Britain twice - from February 27, 1868 to December 1, 1868, and from February 20, 1874 to April 21, 1880. Benjamin Disraeli died on April 19, 1881.

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

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

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse.

A sophistical rhetorican, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

It often happens that worthless people are merely people who are worth knowing.

If every man were straightforward in his opinions, there would be no conversation.

I never offered an opinion till I was sixty ... and then it was one which had been in our family for a century.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

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

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

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The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

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