A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
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 Quote
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
A precedent embalms a principle.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Adventures are to the adventurous.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
As for our majority... one is enough.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
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 Quote
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Duty cannot exist without faith.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Finality is not the language of politics.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Genius, when young, is divine.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Great countries are those that produce great people.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
I say that justice is truth in action.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
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 Quote
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
In politics nothing is contemptible.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
It is easier to be critical than correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Justice is truth in action.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
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 Quote
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
London is a modern Babylon.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
London is a roost for every bird.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
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 Quote
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Never complain and never explain.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Never take anything for granted.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Silence is the mother of truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Success is the child of audacity.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The question is this, "Is man an ape or an angel?" My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence the contrary view, which is I believe, foreign to the conscience of humanity.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
There is moderation even in excess.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
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 Quote
There is no gambling like politics.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
We cannot learn men from books.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
We moralize among ruins.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Without tact you can learn nothing.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
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 Quote
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli Quote
