Source: Endymion
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Famous Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
Source: Curiosities of literature
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.”
Source: The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition
Source: Vivian Grey
Source: The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Venetia. Tancred
“The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.”
Source: Coningsby, Or, The New Generation
“One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.”
Source: Tancred: Or, The New Crusade
Source: Henrietta Temple a Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion
Source: Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].
Source: Tancred: Or, The New Crusade
Source: Contarini Fleming: A Romance
“A man's fate is his own temper.”
Source: Vivian Grey
“A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.”
Source: Endymion
“When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous”
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Contarini Fleming, v. 2. Count Alarcos. Popanilla
“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.”
Source: Coningsby, Or, The New Generation
“Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.”
Source: Contarini Fleming: A Romance
“It is the lot of man to suffer.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”
Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation
Source: Sybil: or, the two nations
“Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales
Source: Coningsby, Or, The New Generation
“Man is more powerful than matter.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)