Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli

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

There is no education like adversity.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Finality is not the language of politics.

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

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

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

Great countries are those that produce great people.

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

As for our majority... one is enough.

There is no gambling like politics.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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