Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.Benjamin Disraeli
A precedent embalms a principle.Benjamin Disraeli
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.Benjamin Disraeli
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.Benjamin Disraeli
Little things affect little minds.Benjamin Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.Benjamin Disraeli
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
I feel a very unusual sensation - If it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.Benjamin Disraeli
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.Benjamin Disraeli
What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens.Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.Benjamin Disraeli
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be 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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.Benjamin Disraeli
It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.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
The secret of success in life 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
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.Benjamin Disraeli
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.Benjamin Disraeli
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.Benjamin Disraeli
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.Benjamin Disraeli
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.Benjamin Disraeli
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.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
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
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.Benjamin Disraeli
