Quotes by Disraeli, Benjamin

"Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."

Disraeli, Benjamin on assassination   

"Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People."

Disraeli, Benjamin on power   

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"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

Disraeli, Benjamin on preparation
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"What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment."

Disraeli, Benjamin on public opinion   

"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose."

Disraeli, Benjamin on purpose   

"The secret to success is constancy to purpose."

Disraeli, Benjamin on purpose
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"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."

Disraeli, Benjamin on quotations   

"It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination."

Disraeli, Benjamin on reason   

"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on evolution   

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on royalty   

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"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."

Disraeli, Benjamin on science   

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"When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on silence
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"Silence is the mother of truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on silence
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"What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on sincerity   

"The more you are talked about the less powerful you are."

Disraeli, Benjamin on speakers and speaking   

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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Disraeli, Benjamin on statistics   

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"The secret of success is consistency of purpose."

Disraeli, Benjamin on success
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"Success is the child of audacity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on success   

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"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful."

Disraeli, Benjamin on success   

"It is the lot of man to suffer."

Disraeli, Benjamin on suffering   

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

Disraeli, Benjamin on action
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"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."

Disraeli, Benjamin on biography   

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"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."

Disraeli, Benjamin on books - reading   

"Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."

Disraeli, Benjamin on books - reading
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"The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons."

Disraeli, Benjamin on bores and boredom   

"Frank and explicit -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."

Disraeli, Benjamin on candor   

"Candor is the brightest gem of criticism."

Disraeli, Benjamin on candor   

"There is no wisdom like frankness."

Disraeli, Benjamin on candor
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"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

Disraeli, Benjamin on change
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"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed."

Disraeli, Benjamin on character
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"There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice."

Disraeli, Benjamin on character   

"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."

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on tact and tactfulness   

"A person's fate is their own temper."

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on thoughts and thinking
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"Travel teaches tolerance."

Disraeli, Benjamin on tolerance
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"Protection is not a principle but an expedient."

Disraeli, Benjamin on trade   

"A precedent embalms a principle."

Disraeli, Benjamin on tradition