Top 564 Quotes & Sayings by Benjamin Disraeli - Page 3
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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.
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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.
Adventures are to the adventurous.
Genius, when young, is divine.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.
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 fervour.
All my successes have been built on my failures.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.
Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
Ignorance never settles a question.
If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.
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