Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse
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Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
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How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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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 neighbors.
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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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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.
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Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
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Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.
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I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.
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What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.
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A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
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Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
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A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.
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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
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The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
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My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
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All must respect those who respect themselves.
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A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.
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Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
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Her Majesty is not a subject.
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I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Departure should be sudden.
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I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.
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I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.
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The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.
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A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
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Benjamin Disraeli
- Born: December 21, 1804
- Died: April 19, 1881
- Occupation: Former Leader of the House of Commons
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