Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Justice is truth in action.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

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

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

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.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Silence is the mother of truth.

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.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

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.

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.

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

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.