Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Never complain and never explain.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

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

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

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

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

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

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

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

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

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

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

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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

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.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

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

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.