Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Benjamin Disraeli

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Benjamin Disraeli

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Benjamin Disraeli

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Benjamin Disraeli

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is moderation even in excess.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
Benjamin Disraeli

They that touch pitch will be defiled.
Benjamin Disraeli

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
Benjamin Disraeli

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin Disraeli

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
Benjamin Disraeli

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli

We cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin Disraeli

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli

We moralize among ruins.
Benjamin Disraeli

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Benjamin Disraeli

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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What usually comes first is the contract.
Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
Benjamin Disraeli

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli

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.
Benjamin Disraeli

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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