“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
Source: The Sayings of Disraeli
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Famous Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”
“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Young duke and Count Alarcos
“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”
“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”
Source: Sybil
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.”
“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
“A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.”
“Never take anything for granted.”
Source: The Sayings of Disraeli
“To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.”
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.”
Source: Curiosities of literature
“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”
Source: Endymion
“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.”
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”
Source: Vivian Grey
“To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.”
“Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Silence is the mother of truth.”
Source: Works
“Success is the child of audacity.”
Source: Alroy
Source: Contarini Fleming
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”
“There is no education like adversity.”
Source: Endymion
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”
Source: Curiosities of literature
“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
“Despair is the conclusion of fools.”
Source: Novels and Tales by the Earl of Beaconsfield