Quotes

The Disappointment of Manhood succeeds to the delusion of Youth: let us hope that the heritage of Old Age is not Despair. ~ Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli "Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men." ~ Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli "Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." ~ Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli "Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination." ~ Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli "Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret." ~ Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. ~ Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli "You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn." ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them. ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards. ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea. ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens