“Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.”
Source: Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel
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Famous Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
“It is the lot of man to suffer.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
“Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”
Source: Works
“How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.”
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.”
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.”
“I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.”
“Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.”
“As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.”
“It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches
“The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Contarini Fleming and The rise of Iskander
“We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.”
“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”
Source: Coningsby, etc
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
Source: Vivian Grey
“Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.”
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts”
Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation
“We make our fortunes and we call them fate.”
Source: Alroy: A Romance
“What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.”
“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”
Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation
Source: Sybil: or, the two nations
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales
Source: The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition
Source: Coningsby, etc
“Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales
Source: Curiosities of literature
Source: Coningsby, Or, The New Generation
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“The originality of a subject is in its treatment.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales
“No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.”
“You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.”
“An obedient wife commands her husband.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.”
Source: Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1860-1864
“Man is more powerful than matter.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)