88 Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
– Benjamin Disraeli
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
– 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
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
– Benjamin Disraeli
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
– Benjamin Disraeli
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
– Benjamin Disraeli
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
– 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
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
– Benjamin Disraeli
In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
– 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
There is no education like adversity.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
– 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
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Duty cannot exist without faith.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Worry – 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
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
– 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
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
– Benjamin Disraeli
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
– Benjamin Disraeli
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Great countries are those that produce great people.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
– Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
– 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
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
– 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
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
– 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
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
– 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
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
– Benjamin Disraeli
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
– 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
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
We cannot learn men from books.
– Benjamin Disraeli
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
– 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
Never complain and never explain.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
– Benjamin Disraeli
There is no gambling like politics.
– Benjamin Disraeli
In politics nothing is contemptible.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Finality is not the language of politics.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
– 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
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
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
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
– Benjamin Disraeli
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the child of audacity.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
– 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
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
– Benjamin Disraeli
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
– Benjamin Disraeli
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Travel teaches toleration.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Justice is truth in action.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Silence is the mother of truth.
– Benjamin Disraeli
I say that justice is truth in action.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
– Benjamin Disraeli
What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
– Benjamin Disraeli
War is never a solution it is an aggravation.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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