Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

Small things affects small minds.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

The expected always happens

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

Everything in this world depends upon will.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

Female friendships are of rapid growth.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.