Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

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.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

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

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

There is moderation even in excess.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

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

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Departure should be sudden.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

As for our majority... one is enough.

There is no gambling like politics.

We cannot learn men from books.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

With words we govern men.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.