Disraeli Quotes

You read what Disraeli had to say. I don't remember what he said. He said something. He's no longer with us. — Bob Dole

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