Benjamin Disraeli Quotes:- Benjamin Disraeli (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach.
Inspirational Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Benjamin Disraeli
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears do not give advantage to the danger.
Benjamin Disraeli
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Benjamin Disraeli
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin Disraeli
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Greatest Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Benjamin Disraeli
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli
The very phrase ‘foreign affairs’ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli
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.
Benjamin Disraeli
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.
Benjamin Disraeli
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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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.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Benjamin Disraeli
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.
Benjamin Disraeli
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone likes flattery and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and, ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
Benjamin Disraeli
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
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
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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