Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli

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

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

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

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

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

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

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.

London is a modern Babylon.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

London is a roost for every bird.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

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

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

There is no education like adversity.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

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.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

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

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.