Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
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Famous Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
“In politics, nothing is contemptible.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.”
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.”
“There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“He who gains time gains everything.”
Source: Works
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
Source: Contarini Fleming: A Romance
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion
“Duty cannot exist without faith”
Source: Tancred: Or, The New Crusade
“I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.”
Source: Memorials of Lord Beaconsfield Reprinted Fron: With a Portrait
“A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.”
Source: The Sayings of Disraeli
“Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.”
“That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.”
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.”
“The greatest of all evils is a weak government”
Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation
Source: The Sayings of Disraeli
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
Source: The Wondrous Tale of Alroy: The Rise of Iskander
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”