Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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
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
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.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 man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.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
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
A precedent embalms a principle.Benjamin Disraeli
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.Benjamin Disraeli
What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens.Benjamin Disraeli
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.Benjamin Disraeli
I feel a very unusual sensation - If it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.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
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.Benjamin Disraeli
The hare - Brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.Benjamin Disraeli
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.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
Fear makes us feel our humanity.Benjamin Disraeli
Every great decision creates ripples - - Like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.Benjamin Disraeli
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.Benjamin Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.Benjamin Disraeli
I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.Benjamin Disraeli
We make our fortunes and call them fate.Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.Benjamin Disraeli
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
I must follow the people. Am I not their leade.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
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
