Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.Benjamin Disraeli
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.Benjamin Disraeli
I feel a very unusual sensation - If it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.Benjamin Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.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
I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.Benjamin Disraeli
We make our fortunes and call them fate.Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.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
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.Benjamin Disraeli
Little things affect little minds.Benjamin Disraeli
Ignorance never settles a question.Benjamin Disraeli
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.Benjamin Disraeli
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.Benjamin Disraeli
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.Benjamin Disraeli
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.Benjamin Disraeli
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.Benjamin Disraeli
