- A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli »
- A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. Benjamin Disraeli »
- A precedent embalms a principle. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli »
- As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Benjamin Disraeli »
- As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Fear makes us feel our humanity. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Benjamin Disraeli »
- He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator. Benjamin Disraeli »
- I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. Benjamin Disraeli »
- I must follow the people. Am I not their leader Benjamin Disraeli »
- I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget. Benjamin Disraeli »
- I repeat...that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. Benjamin Disraeli »
- It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. Benjamin Disraeli »
- It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal. Benjamin Disraeli »
- It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli »
- It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli »
- 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. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe. Benjamin Disraeli »
- My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Never complain and never explain. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli »
- No government can be long secure without formidable opposition. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think... Benjamin Disraeli »
- Nurture your mind with great thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Said Waldershare, 'Sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'And pray what is that' ... 'Sensible men never tell.' Benjamin Disraeli »
- Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Success is the child of audacity. Benjamin Disraeli »
- The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. Benjamin Disraeli »
- The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli »
- The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. Benjamin Disraeli »
- The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Benjamin Disraeli »
- The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. Benjamin Disraeli »
- The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli »
- The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli »
- The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli »
- The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Benjamin Disraeli »
- There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli »
- There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraeli »
- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli »
- We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli »
- We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. Benjamin Disraeli »
- What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli »
- When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli »
- When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. Benjamin Disraeli »
- Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli »
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