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Doubt is an element of critic...

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

A beautiful hand is an excell...

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

An amateur may not be an arti...

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

You know, all is development....

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

Taste, when once obtained, ma...

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

I see before me the statue of...

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

I think that an author who sp...

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

I look upon parliamentary gov...

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

Fame has eagle wings, and yet...

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

The world is ruled by other p...

The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

The girl of the period sets u...

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

O Music! Miraculous art! A bl...

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

The sympathy of sorrow is str...

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

It is the lot of man to suffe...

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

She is an excellent creature,...

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

Some will read only old books...

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

Female friendships are of rap...

Female friendships are of rapid growth.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

The most powerful men are not...

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

Why, I say, that to tax the c...

Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

The tendency of an advanced c...

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

Benjamin Disraeli 809 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....