There is moderation even in excess.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
— Benjamin Disraeli
An obedient wife commands her husband.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
— Benjamin Disraeli
"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.
— Benjamin Disraeli
My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Political life must be taken as you find it.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Every woman should marry ... and no man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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
We moralize among ruins.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.
— Benjamin Disraeli
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'
— Benjamin Disraeli
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Justice is truth in action.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
— Benjamin Disraeli
To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it. — Benjamin Disraeli
Change is constant in a progressive country. — Benjamin Disraeli
Books are the curse of the human race. — Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. — Benjamin Disraeli
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. — Benjamin Disraeli
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. — Benjamin Disraeli
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. — Benjamin Disraeli
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. — Benjamin Disraeli
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. — Benjamin Disraeli
Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it. — Benjamin Disraeli
A book may be as great a thing as a battle. — Benjamin Disraeli
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray. — Benjamin Disraeli
One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever. — 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. — Benjamin Disraeli
England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics. — Benjamin Disraeli
Great countries are those that produce great people. — Benjamin Disraeli
Everything in this world depends upon will. — Benjamin Disraeli
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
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. — Benjamin Disraeli
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. — Benjamin Disraeli
What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune. — Benjamin Disraeli
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. — Benjamin Disraeli
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. — Benjamin Disraeli
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. — Benjamin Disraeli
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. — Benjamin Disraeli
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. — Benjamin Disraeli
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. — Benjamin Disraeli
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. — Benjamin Disraeli
Her Majesty is not a subject. — Benjamin Disraeli
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. — Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. - BENJAMIN DISRAELI — William Bill Damon
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. — Benjamin Disraeli
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. — Benjamin Disraeli
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance. — Benjamin Disraeli
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. — Benjamin Disraeli
A person's fate is their own temper. — Benjamin Disraeli
The secret to success is constancy of purpose. — Benjamin Disraeli
We make our fortunes and we call them fate. — Benjamin Disraeli
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. — Benjamin Disraeli
The canter is a cure for every evil. — Benjamin Disraeli
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. — Benjamin Disraeli
All my successes have been built on my failures. — Benjamin Disraeli
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation — Benjamin Disraeli
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power. — Benjamin Disraeli
All must respect those who respect themselves. — Benjamin Disraeli
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England. — Benjamin Disraeli
Departure should be sudden. — Benjamin Disraeli
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. — Benjamin Disraeli
Life is to short to be small. — Benjamin Disraeli
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. — Benjamin Disraeli
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. — Benjamin Disraeli
Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter. — Benjamin Disraeli
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. — Benjamin Disraeli
The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any. — Benjamin Disraeli
Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything. — Benjamin Disraeli
Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system. — Benjamin Disraeli
Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'. — Benjamin Disraeli
We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason. — Benjamin Disraeli
A canter is the cure for all evil. — Benjamin Disraeli
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. — Benjamin Disraeli
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable. — Benjamin Disraeli
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. — Benjamin Disraeli
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. — Benjamin Disraeli
Information upon points of practical politics. — Benjamin Disraeli
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. — Benjamin Disraeli
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. — Benjamin Disraeli
All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music! — Benjamin Disraeli
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. — Benjamin Disraeli
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. — Benjamin Disraeli
