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Famous Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
“Tobacco is the tomb of love.”
“In politics experiments means revolutions.”
“Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”
“Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.”
“Eloquence is the child of knowledge.”
“I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.”
“What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.”
“You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.”
“I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.”
“To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you”
“The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.”
“To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.”
“We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.”
“I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.”
“A man's fate is his own temper.”
“A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.”
“The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.”
“The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.”
“There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.”
“I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.”
“When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous”