Benjamin Quotes

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

Female friendships are of rapid growth.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

England does not love coalitions.

London; a nation, not a city.

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!

Nature is stronger than education.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

All is race - there is no other truth.