Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

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.

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

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.

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.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

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.

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

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.