Benjamin Disraeli quotes

 quotes - The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

 quotes - I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

 quotes - Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

 quotes - How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Never complain and never explain.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I say that justice is truth in action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.”

— 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

“A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Never take anything for granted.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”

— Benjamin Disraeli