Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is the mother of truth.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

~ 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 or the prejudices of the few.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The canter is a cure for every evil.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

He has not a single redeeming defect.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

London is a roost for every bird.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Something will turn up.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

A precedent embalms a principle.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Departure should be sudden.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ 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

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli