Benjamin Disraeli quotes

“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“There is no education like adversity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“There can be economy only where there is efficiency.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“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.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Genius, when young, is divine.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“It is easier to be critical than correct.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“There is no index of character so sure as the voice.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Justice is truth in action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.”

— 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