Benjamin Disraeli Quotes and Quotations
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
He has not a single redeeming defect.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.
London is a roost for every bird.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lords, am on the side of the angels.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Departure should be sudden.
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Damn your principles! Stick to your party!
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Something will turn up.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Worry is 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.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Little things affect little minds.
We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end.
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
There is no education like adversity.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing.
His Christianity was muscular.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Ignorance never settles a question.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
London is a roost, for every bird.
We are all born for love, ... It is the principle of existence and its only end.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Every woman should marry - and no man.
Departure should be sudden.
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Travel teaches toleration.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.