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Benjamin Disraeli

Birthday: December 21, 1804
Deathday: April 19, 1881
Category: British Statesman
Type: Statesman
National: British

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

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy....

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in...

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of...

A majority is always better than the best repartee....

A man may speak very well in the House of...

A precedent embalms a principle....

A University should be a place of light, of liberty,...

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no...

Adventures are to the adventurous....

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth....

An author who speaks about their own books is almost...

As a general rule, the most successful man in life...

As for our majority... one is enough....

Assassination has never changed the history of the world....

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell...

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a...

Change is inevitable. Change is constant....

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

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

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are...

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected...

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke....

Damn your principles! Stick to your party....

Despair is the conclusion of fools....

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius....

Diligence is the mother of good fortune....

Duty cannot exist without faith....

Every man has a right to be conceited until he...

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm....

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you...

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

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even...

Fear makes us feel our humanity....

Finality is not the language of politics....

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to...

Genius, when young, is divine....

Great countries are those that produce great people....

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of...

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one...

How much easier it is to be critical than to...

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

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not...

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction...

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

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we...

I say that justice is truth in action....

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself....

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory....

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

In politics nothing is contemptible....

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of...

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to...

It is easier to be critical than correct....

It is much easier to be critical than to be...

Justice is truth in action....

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed...

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to...

Life is too short to be little. Man is never...

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

Little things affect little minds....

London is a modern Babylon....

London is a roost for every bird....

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if...

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the...

Man is only great when he acts from passion....

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

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition...

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and...

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the...

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the...

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness....

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you...

Never complain and never explain....

Never take anything for granted....

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most...

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever...

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition....

No man is regular in his attendance at the House...

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him....

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard....

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the...

One secret of success in life is for a man...

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation....

Power has only one duty - to secure the social...

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life...

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power....

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three...

Silence is the mother of truth....

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell...

Success is the child of audacity....

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what...

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

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is...

That fatal drollery called a representative government....

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon...

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of...

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this:...

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it...

The fool wonders, the wise man asks....

The governments of the present day have to deal not...

The greatest good you can do for another is not...

The health of the people is really the foundation upon...

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been...

The more you are talked about the less powerful you...

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not...

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the...

The practice of politics in the East may be defined...

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble....

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked...

The secret of success in life is for a man...

The secret of success is constancy to purpose....

The secret of success is to be ready when your...

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but...

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that...

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world;...

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the...

The world is governed by very different personages from what...

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

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity....

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and...

There can be economy only where there is efficiency....

There is moderation even in excess....

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which...

There is no education like adversity....

There is no gambling like politics....

There is no greater index of character so sure as...

There is no index of character so sure as the...

There is no waste of time in life like that...

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using...

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed...

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time....

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts...

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their...

To tax the community for the advantage of a class...

Travel teaches toleration....

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no...

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

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation....

We are all born for love. It is the principle...

We cannot learn men from books....

We live in an age when to be young and...

We moralize among ruins....

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful...

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary,...

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

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a...

When little is done, little is said; silence is the...

Where knowledge ends, religion begins....

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect....

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without...

Without tact you can learn nothing....

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the...

You can tell the strength of a nation by the...

You will find as you grow older that courage is...

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity....