Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Worry is 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli
Travel teaches toleration.
Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.
Benjamin Disraeli
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
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 to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.
Benjamin Disraeli
A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Benjamin Disraeli
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli
Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
Benjamin Disraeli
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Benjamin Disraeli
Damn your principles! Stick to your party!
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Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
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Departure should be sudden.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Benjamin Disraeli
I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.
Benjamin Disraeli
Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
Benjamin Disraeli
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Benjamin Disraeli
Damn your principles! Stick to your party!
Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Benjamin Disraeli
Departure should be sudden.
Benjamin Disraeli
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli
Departure should be sudden.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every woman should marry - and no man.
Benjamin Disraeli
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Benjamin Disraeli
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
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We are all born for love ... It is the principle of existence and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli
For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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Ignorance never settles a question.
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The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
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Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
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