Quotes By 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.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

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

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Travel teaches toleration.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

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

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.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

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.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Silence is the mother of truth.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

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.

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

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

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.