Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.
I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.
I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.
Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.
"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.
When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.