Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Life is too short to be little.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

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

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Departure should be sudden.

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous

England does not love coalitions.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

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

Her Majesty is not a subject.

There is no education like adversity.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

Meditation is culture.

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

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

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

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

Never take anything for granted.

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

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

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

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

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

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

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

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

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.