Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Something will turn up.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

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

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.

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

For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.

London is a roost for every bird.

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

Every woman should marry - and no man.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party!

Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.

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

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.

Worry is a god invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.

Justice is truth in action.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

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

In politics nothing is contemptible.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.