Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

London is a roost for every bird.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Information upon points of practical politics.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

Adventures are to the adventurous.

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

We are taught words, not ideas.

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Everything in this world depends upon will.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Finality is not the language of politics.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

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

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

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

Without tact you can learn nothing.