Famous Benjamin Disraeli Quotations

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"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"It is easier to be critical than correct."
by 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."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"A majority is always better than the best repartee."
by 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."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."
by 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."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"A precedent embalms a principle."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"There is no education like adversity."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
by 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."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"We moralize among ruins."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Silence is the mother of truth."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Success is the child of audacity."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Finality is not the language of politics."
by 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."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Fear makes us feel our humanity."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"A Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy."
by 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."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Adventures are to the adventurous."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"As for our majority... one is enough."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day"
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Change is inevitable. Change is constant"
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."
by 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."
by 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."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Damn your principles! Stick to your party."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Despair is the conclusion of fools."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Despair is the conclusion of fools"
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Duty cannot exist without faith."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Duty cannot exist without faith"
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Every great decision creates ripples - like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences"
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Every woman should marry - and no man."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Fear makes us feel our humanity"
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Genius, when young, is divine."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"Great countries are those that produce great people."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."
by Benjamin Disraeli
"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea and that was wrong."
by Benjamin Disraeli


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