Benjamin Disraeli Quotes And Sayings

My Idea Of An Agreeable Person Is A Person Who Agrees With Me.

Man Is Not The Creature Of Circumstances, Circumstances Are The Creatures Of Men. We Are Free Agents, And Man Is More Powerful Than Matter.

Nurture Your Minds With Great Thoughts. To Believe In The Heroic Makes Heroes.

To Tax The Community For The Advantage Of A Class Is Not Protection: It Is Plunder.

The Secret Of Success In Life Is For A Man To Be Ready For His Opportunity When It Comes.

Silence Is The Mother Of Truth.

An Author Who Speaks About Their Own Books Is Almost As Bad As A Mother Who Speaks About Her Own Children.

The Wisdom Of The Wise And The Experience Of The Ages Are Perpetuated By Quotations.

The Secret Of Success Is To Be Ready When Your Opportunity Comes.

Courage Is Fire, And Bullying Is Smoke.

Man Is Only Great When He Acts From Passion.

One Secret Of Success In Life Is For A Man To Be Ready For His Opportunity When It Comes.

Be Amusing: Never Tell Unkind Stories; Above All, Never Tell Long Ones.

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.

Beware Of Endeavoring To Become A Great Man In A Hurry. One Such Attempt In Ten Thousand May Succeed. These Are Fearful Odds.

Teach Us That Wealth Is Not Elegance, That Profusion Is Not Magnificence, That Splendor Is Not Beauty.

Next To Knowing When To Seize An Opportunity, The Most Important Thing In Life Is To Know When To Forego An Advantage.

If You're Not Very Clever You Should Be Conciliatory.

A Man May Speak Very Well In The House Of Commons, And Fail Very Completely In The House Of Lords. There Are Two Distinct Styles Requisite: I Intend, In The Course Of My Career, If I Have Time, To Give A Specimen Of Both.

The Very Phrase 'Foreign Affairs' Makes An Englishman Convinced That I Am About To Treat Of Subjects With Which He Has No Concern.

Justice Is Truth In Action.

The Palace Is Not Safe When The Cottage Is Not Happy.

Seeing Much, Suffering Much, And Studying Much, Are The Three Pillars Of Learning.

What We Anticipate Seldom Occurs: But What We Least Expect Generally Happens.

It Is Much Easier To Be Critical Than To Be Correct.

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.

A Precedent Embalms A Principle.

The World Is Weary Of Statesmen Whom Democracy Has Degraded Into Politicians.

William Gladstone Has Not A Single Redeeming Defect.

Nobody Is Forgotten When It Is Convenient To Remember Him.

A Conservative Government Is An Organized Hypocrisy.

Conservatism Discards Prescription, Shrinks From Principle, Disavows Progress; Having Rejected All Respect For Antiquity, It Offers No Redress For The Present, And Makes No Preparation For The Future.

Fame And Power Are The Objects Of All Men. Even Their Partial Fruition Is Gained By Very Few; And That, Too, At The Expense Of Social Pleasure, Health, Conscience, Life.

In Politics Nothing Is Contemptible.

We Should Never Lose An Occasion. Opportunity Is More Powerful Even Than Conquerors And Prophets.

There Is No Act Of Treachery Or Meanness Of Which A Political Party Is Not Capable; For In Politics There Is No Honour.

A Majority Is Always Better Than The Best Repartee.

Finality Is Not The Language Of Politics.

As For Our Majority... One Is Enough.

No Government Can Be Long Secure Without A Formidable Opposition.

No Government Can Be Long Secure Without A Formidable Opposition.

As A General Rule, The Most Successful Man In Life Is The Man Who Has The Best Information.

I Never Deny. I Never Contradict. I Sometimes Forget.

I Have Brought Myself, By Long Meditation, To The Conviction That A Human Being With A Settled Purpose Must Accomplish It, And That Nothing Can Resist A Will Which Will Stake Even Existence Upon Its Fulfillment.

Everyone Likes Flattery; And When You Come To Royalty You Should Lay It On With A Trowel.

Read No History: Nothing But Biography, For That Is Life Without Theory.

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.

Something Unpleasant Is Coming When Men Are Anxious To Tell The Truth.

Without Tact You Can Learn Nothing.

The Fool Wonders, The Wise Man Asks.