Benjamin Disraeli quotes

“The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Little things affect little minds.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Travel teaches toleration.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Success is the child of audacity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Despair is the conclusion of fools.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”

— 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

“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.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”

— Benjamin Disraeli