Benjamin Disraeli quotes

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

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

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.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

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

Never take anything for granted.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

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

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

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

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

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

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.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Silence is the mother of truth.

We cannot learn men from books.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Finality is not the language of politics.

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

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

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

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

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

There is no education like adversity.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

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

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

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

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

London is a roost for every bird.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

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

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

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

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

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

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

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.

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

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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

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.

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

There is no gambling like politics.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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

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

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

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

As for our majority... one is enough.

Travel teaches toleration.

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

In politics nothing is contemptible.

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

Justice is truth in action.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

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

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

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Success is the child of audacity.

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.

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

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

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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