Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
ISAAC DISRAELI Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
ISAAC DISRAELI It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
ISAAC DISRAELI There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
ISAAC DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
ISAAC DISRAELI After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have n...
ISAAC DISRAELI Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses
ISAAC DISRAELI The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected at first,...
ISAAC DISRAELI Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rat...
ISAAC DISRAELI It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us
ISAAC DISRAELI the french ambassador to spain, meeting cervantes,congratulated him on the great success and reputat...
ISAAC DISRAELI Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
ISAAC DISRAELI Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it wo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from th...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Never complain and never explain.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous Pe...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own childr...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success wh...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Great countries are those that produce great people.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In politics, nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Amusement to an observing mind is study.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
BENJAMIN DISRAELI When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Success is the child of audacity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no education like adversity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Despair is the conclusion of fools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and th...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their power...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellin...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confus...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other'...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of governmen...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Genius, when young, is divine.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, wh...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Frank and explicit -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to c...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A precedent embalms a principle.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Travel teaches tolerance.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always que...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A person's fate is their own temper.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beaut...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Damn your principals. Stick to your Party!
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to th...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Little things affect little minds.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudi...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Duty cannot exist without faith.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to tha...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My objection to Liberalism is this -- that it is the introduction into the practical business of lif...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Everything comes if a man will only wait.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-m...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, a...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonse...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are Batavian graces in all he says.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worshi...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Silence is the mother of truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Assassination has never changed the history of the world
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrass...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no wisdom like frankness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in r...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end
BENJAMIN DISRAELI All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Tact is the intelligence of the heart
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Without tact you can learn nothing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies d...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of m...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is the lot of man to suffer.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that i...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI