Benjamin Disraeli

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


William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Benjamin Disraeli


It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli


We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Benjamin Disraeli


Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli


The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Benjamin Disraeli


Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Benjamin Disraeli


Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Benjamin Disraeli


Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Benjamin Disraeli


The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Benjamin Disraeli


Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Benjamin Disraeli


The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Benjamin Disraeli


The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

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