Famous Quotes

Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

• 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.
• Travel teaches toleration.
• Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.