Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Never take anything for granted.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Justice is truth in action.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

~ 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

Travel teaches toleration.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

London is a roost for every bird.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Duty cannot exist without faith.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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.

~ Benjamin Disraeli