Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

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.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Justice is truth in action.

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

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

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

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

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

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

The more extensive a man`s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

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

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

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism

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.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

It destroys one`s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

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

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