Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an ...

Success is the child of audacity.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are ...

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents...

London is a roost for every bird.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally creat...

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represen...

Silence is the mother of truth.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the peopl...

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed...

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public li...

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a cl...

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Something will turn up.

A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

Every woman should marry - and no man.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party!

As for our majority... one is enough.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the...

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to ...

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

The canter is a cure for every evil.

We cannot learn men from books.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established...

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Never complain and never explain.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...

Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Little things affect little minds.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics t...

For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regr...

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to fo...

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty o...

His Christianity was muscular.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their power...

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents ...

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

There is no education like adversity.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Departure should be sudden.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other'...

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beaut...

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his ...

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Justice is truth in action.

Never take anything for granted.

Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.

A precedent embalms a principle.

We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.

Travel teaches toleration.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.