As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it. Benjamin Disraeli
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli
It is easier to be critical than correct. Benjamin Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. Benjamin Disraeli
Never complain and never explain. Benjamin Disraeli
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others. Benjamin Disraeli
There is no education like adversity. Benjamin Disraeli
The more you are talked about, the less powerful you are. Benjamin Disraeli
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli
There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent. Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is consistency of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. Benjamin Disraeli
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair. Benjamin Disraeli
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. Benjamin Disraeli
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. Benjamin Disraeli
We make our own fortunes and we call them fate. Benjamin Disraeli
My objection to Liberalism is this – that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind – namely, politics – of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. Benjamin Disraeli
It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. Benjamin Disraeli
He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator. Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter. Benjamin Disraeli
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. Benjamin Disraeli
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Disraeli
A person’s fate is their own temper. Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. Benjamin Disraeli
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. Benjamin Disraeli
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning. Benjamin Disraeli
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. Benjamin Disraeli
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. Benjamin Disraeli (on Gladstone)
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Benjamin Disraeli
I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields. Benjamin Disraeli (on being elevated to the House of Lords)
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. Benjamin Disraeli
If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity. Benjamin Disraeli
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Benjamin Disraeli
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. Benjamin Disraeli
London is a modern Babylon. Benjamin Disraeli
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Benjamin Disraeli
Justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli
Politics is nothing but organised opinion. Benjamin Disraeli
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Benjamin Disraeli
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. Benjamin Disraeli
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. Benjamin Disraeli