I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.
Benjamin DisraeliEveryone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin DisraeliPeople are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
Benjamin DisraeliThose authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
Benjamin DisraeliNo government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.
Benjamin Disraeli