Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard

Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Life Quotes, Manners Quotes

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right...

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right...

Adventures are to the adventurous

Adventures are to the adventurous

Man is truly great when he can act from his passions

Man is truly great when he can act from his passions

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Never complain and never explain.

Never complain and never explain.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him,...

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him,...

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame, -a quality...

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame, -a quality...

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely...

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely...

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could...

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could...

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a...

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a...

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And...

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And...

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with...

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with...

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother...

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother...

Little things affect little minds.

Little things affect little minds.