Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

A canter is the cure for all evil.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

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

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

A person's fate is their own temper.

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

Female friendships are of rapid growth.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

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

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

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

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

No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Books are the curse of the human race.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

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

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.

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

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

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

We cannot learn men from books.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.