Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.Benjamin Disraeli
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.Benjamin Disraeli
The hare - Brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.Benjamin Disraeli
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.Benjamin Disraeli
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.Benjamin Disraeli
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.Benjamin Disraeli
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.Benjamin Disraeli
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.Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
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.Benjamin Disraeli
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Benjamin Disraeli
We make our fortunes and call them fate.Benjamin Disraeli
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.Benjamin Disraeli
Little things affect little minds.Benjamin Disraeli
I feel a very unusual sensation - If it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.Benjamin Disraeli
A precedent embalms a principle.Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.Benjamin Disraeli
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.Benjamin Disraeli
Every great decision creates ripples - - Like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.Benjamin Disraeli
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.Benjamin Disraeli
He is a self - Made man, very much in love with his creator.Benjamin Disraeli
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.Benjamin Disraeli
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.Benjamin Disraeli
It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.Benjamin Disraeli
