Quotes

Adventures are to the adventurous.
-Benjamin Disraeli

A majority is always better than the best repartee.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
-Benjamin Disraeli

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Little things affect little minds.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Success is the child of audacity.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
-Benjamin Disraeli

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
-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

Despair is the conclusion of fools.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Finality is not the language of politics.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
-Benjamin Disraeli

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
-Benjamin Disraeli

London is a modern Babylon.
-Benjamin Disraeli

London is a roost for every bird.
-Benjamin Disraeli

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
-Benjamin Disraeli

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

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning
-Benjamin Disraeli

A precedent embalms a principle.
-Benjamin Disraeli

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
-Benjamin Disraeli

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
-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.
-Benjamin Disraeli

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only great when he acts from passion.
-Benjamin Disraeli

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

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
-Benjamin Disraeli

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
-Benjamin Disraeli

As for our majority... one is enough.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Duty cannot exist without faith.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Genius, when young, is divine.
-Benjamin Disraeli

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

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Never complain and never explain.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Never take anything for granted.
-Benjamin Disraeli