Quotes from authors born in 1804
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin Disraeli
On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.
Richard Cobden
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Molly Shannon 
Jim Steinman 
Vartan Gregorian 
Jack Kemp 
Nafisa Joseph 
Nick Lowe 
Carol Channing 
Kelly Brook