Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Never complain and never explain.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Little things affect little minds.

There is no education like adversity.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

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.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Success is the child of audacity.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

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.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Life is too short to be little.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

Ignorance never settles a question.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

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 or the prejudices of the few.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Worry - 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.

Justice is truth in action.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

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.

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

A precedent embalms a principle.

His Christianity was muscular

Travel teaches toleration.

A person's fate is their own temper.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

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.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Duty cannot exist without faith

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

London is a modern Babylon.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.