Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us."

"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man."

"If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory."

"What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth."

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."

"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."

"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."

"We cannot learn men from books."

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."

"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."

"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth."

"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge."

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

"The darkest nights often reveal that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"A mindful spirit recognizes that the greatest battles are fought within."

"Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels."

"A precedent embalms a principle."

"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."

"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

"Never complain and never explain."

"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."

"Great countries are those that produce great people."

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

"A majority is always better than the best repartee."

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."

"War is never a solution it is an aggravation."

"There is no gambling like politics."

"Finality is not the language of politics."

"In politics nothing is contemptible."

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

"That fatal drollery called a representative government."

"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition."

"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."

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

"The greatest journey starts when wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to listen."

"The art of living is discovering that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"The greatest journey starts when shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"To leave a mark on the world, remember that the journey is far more important than the destination."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions."

"A majority is always the best repartee."

"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor."

"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."

"A courageous heart knows that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner."

"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds."

"I say that justice is truth in action."

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour."

"Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power."

"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men."

"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

"A courageous heart knows that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”"

"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."

"The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven."

"Silence is the mother of truth."

"Success is the child of audacity."

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."

"Every sunset is a reminder that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end."

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

"Man is only great when he acts from passion."

"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret."

"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."

"Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret."

"Travel teaches toleration."

"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."

"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable."

"In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable."

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

"Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."

"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life."

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

"Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon."

"Justice is truth in action."

"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief."

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."

"What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful."

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."

"The simplest truths often reveal that the canvas of tomorrow is painted with the actions of today."

"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."

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

"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."

"The art of living is discovering that authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the beauty of life is found in its imperfections."

"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."

"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."

"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."

"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."

"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."

"Every sunset is a reminder that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."

"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit."

"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."

"Duty cannot exist without faith."

"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."

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

"I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."

"London is a roost for every bird."

"Fear makes us feel our humanity."

"“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."

"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."

"There is no education like adversity."

"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."

"He who seeks peace must remember that the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."