Benjamin Disraeli

Ignorance never settle a question.
Benjamin Disraeli

Amusement to an observing mind is study.
Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
Benjamin Disraeli

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is no wisdom like frankness.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
Benjamin Disraeli

A person's fate is their own temper.
Benjamin Disraeli

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli

Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Benjamin Disraeli

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.
Benjamin Disraeli

No 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

Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
Benjamin Disraeli

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
Benjamin Disraeli

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
Benjamin Disraeli

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.
Benjamin Disraeli

Man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli

To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli

Travel teaches tolerance.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Travel teaches toleration.
Benjamin Disraeli

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Dizzy Disraeli

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
Benjamin Disraeli

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
Benjamin Disraeli

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
Benjamin Disraeli

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
Benjamin Disraeli

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. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

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.
Benjamin Disraeli

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Benjamin Disraeli

Duty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Never complain and never explain.
Benjamin Disraeli

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
Benjamin Disraeli

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli

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.
Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli