Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

Worry - 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.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

A man's fate is his own temper.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

He who gains time gains everything.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

London is a roost for every bird.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

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

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

London is a modern Babylon.

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

We are taught words, not ideas.

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.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.