Disraeli

Famous quotes containing the word disraeli:

    A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

    Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace but a peace I hope with honour.
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

    Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal
    savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)