Famous Quotes

Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

• A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
• A majority is always better than the best repartee.
• 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.
• A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
• Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
• Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
• As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
• Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
• Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
• Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
• Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
• Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
• Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
• Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
• Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
• Duty cannot exist without faith.
• Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
• Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
• Fear makes us feel our humanity.
• Finality is not the language of politics.
• Great countries are those that produce great people.
• I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
• 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.
• I say that justice is truth in action.
• If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
• In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.
• In politics nothing is contemptible.
• It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
• Justice is truth in action.
• King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
• Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
• Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
• Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
• Man is only great when he acts from passion.
• 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.