Benjamin Disraeli

Finality is not the language of politics.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

— Benjamin Disraeli

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

— Benjamin 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

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.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is the mother of truth.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Success is the child of audacity.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

It is the lot of man to suffer.

— 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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

A person's fate is their own temper.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Travel teaches tolerance.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Protection is not a principle but an expedient.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A precedent embalms a principle.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Damn your principles. Stick to your Party!

— Benjamin Disraeli

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

— 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

Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

— Benjamin Disraeli

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

— Benjamin Disraeli

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Never complain and never explain.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.

— Benjamin Disraeli

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

— Benjamin Disraeli

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

— Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and therefore when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which, I hope, will keep it great.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

— Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

— Benjamin Disraeli

That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous People, is my Prayer; that these great consequences can only be brought about by the energy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion. We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

— Benjamin Disraeli

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I rather like bad wine, . . . one gets so bored with good wine.

— Benjamin Disraeli