Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

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

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

There is moderation even in excess.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

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.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

We cannot learn men from books.

Never take anything for granted.