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Benjamin Disraeli quotes
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Silence is the mother of truth.
— Benjamin Disraeli
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
— Benjamin Disraeli
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
— Benjamin Disraeli
Read no history–nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The canter is a cure for every evil.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There is no index of character as sure as the voice.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851
— Benjamin Disraeli
I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
— Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!
— Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or the Two Nations
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There is no education like adversity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
— Benjamin Disraeli
He has not a single redeeming defect.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
His Christianity was muscular.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.
— Benjamin Disraeli
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Frank and explicit – this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
— Benjamin Disraeli
London is a roost for every bird.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Little things affect little minds.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Something will turn up.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
— Benjamin Disraeli
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A precedent embalms a principle.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Ignorance never settles a question.
— Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.
— Benjamin Disraeli
For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.
— Benjamin Disraeli
London is a roost for every bird.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love … It is the principle of existence and its only end.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
— Benjamin Disraeli
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Every woman should marry – and no man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Departure should be sudden.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Damn your principles! Stick to your party!
— Benjamin Disraeli
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
— Benjamin Disraeli
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Without tact you can learn nothing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.
— Benjamin Disraeli
But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Travel teaches toleration.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Worry is a god invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Never take anything for granted.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
— Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Justice is truth in action.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Duty cannot exist without faith.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
— Benjamin Disraeli
As for our majority… one is enough.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There is no gambling like politics.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
In politics nothing is contemptible.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Finality is not the language of politics.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Never complain and never explain.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We cannot learn men from books.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
— Benjamin Disraeli
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the child of audacity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
— Benjamin Disraeli
In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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