Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

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

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

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

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

We moralize among ruins.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Justice is truth in action.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

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.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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

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.

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

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.

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.