Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
+18The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+6He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+3The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+3A canter is a cure for every evil.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+3The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+3Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Time is the great physician.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Silence is the mother of truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Ignorance never settles a question.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Worry is 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.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
0We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
- Benjamin Disraeli
0Success is the child of audacity.
- Benjamin Disraeli
0I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
0Life is too short to be small.
- Benjamin Disraeli
