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Benjamin Disraeli quotes (53) Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Trifles Nurture your minds with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Hero The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Good Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius Benjamin Disraeli Category: Genius His Christianity was muscular. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Christianity Damn your principles! Stick to your party. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Politeness In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Progress A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Conservative Despair is the conclusion of fools. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Despair Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creature of man. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Man Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Age Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Enthusiasm When men are pure laws are useless; when men are corrupt laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Orthodox I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? Benjamin Disraeli Category: Leadership You know who critics are?the men who have failed in literature and art. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Crisis Never complain and never explain. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Endure Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Fiction There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Doctor Action may not always bring happiness; But there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Action Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Passion To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Tax A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Heart Books are the curse of the human race. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Book The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Proverb It destroys ones nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Every woman should marry and no man Benjamin Disraeli Category: Marriage How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Garden Sir I say that justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Justice The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Author Characters do not change.- Opinions alter but characters Are only developed. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Character Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Opinion The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Credulity What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Disappointment We are all born for love.... It is the principle of existence and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Love Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Opportunity Property has its duties as well as its rights. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Possessions It destroys ones nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Liking One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Wrong There are three kinds of lies: Lies Damn Lies and Statistics. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Lever No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Government The more extensive a mans knowledge of what has been done the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Knowledge The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Purpose A precedent embalms a principle. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Custom Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Assassination To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli Category: If I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Will Seeing much suffering much and studying much are the three pillars of learning. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Learn Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Feelings I never deny I never contradict. I sometimes forget. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Homosexuality Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Civilization There is no index of character so sure as the voice. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Voice The essence of education is the education of the body. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Unsorted Time is precious but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Truth As a rule he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Life |
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