Famous Quotes

Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

• Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
• 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.
• Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
• Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
• Never complain and never explain.
• No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
• No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
• Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
• Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
• Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
• Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
• Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
• Silence is the mother of truth.
• Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
• Success is the child of audacity.
• Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
• Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
• That fatal drollery called a representative government.
• The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
• The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
• The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
• The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
• The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
• The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
• The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
• The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
• The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
• The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
• There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
• There is no education like adversity.
• There is no gambling like politics.
• There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
• Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
• Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
• To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.