Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.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
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
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.Benjamin Disraeli
I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.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
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
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
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.Benjamin Disraeli
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.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
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
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
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.Benjamin Disraeli
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.Benjamin Disraeli
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.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
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
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.Benjamin Disraeli
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.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
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.Benjamin Disraeli
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.Benjamin Disraeli
It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.Benjamin Disraeli
We make our fortunes and call them fate.Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.Benjamin Disraeli
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
