Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

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

There is no wisdom like frankness.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Great men never require experience.

Life is too short to be little.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

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

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Little things affect little minds.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

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

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

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

Beauty can inspire miracles.

The gondola of London [a hansom].

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

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.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.