Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

He who gains time gains everything.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

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.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The expected always happens

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

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

The essence of education is the education of the body.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

London is a modern Babylon.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

All must respect those who respect themselves.

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

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.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

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

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.