Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted,” said Egremont.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

452. “What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

453. “Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

454. “The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

455. “Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

456. “What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?”

— Benjamin Disraeli

457. “There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

458. “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

459. “I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

460. “Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

461. “A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

463. “Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

464. “Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

465. “The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

466. “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.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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467. “That fatal drollery called a representative government.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

468. “You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

469. “A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

470. “To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

471. “Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

472. “I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

473. “Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

474. “Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

475. “In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

476. “The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

477. “Man must ever be the slave of routine: but in old days it was a routine of great thoughts, and now it is a routine of little ones.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

478. “I believe that nothing in newspapers is ever true,” said Madame Phoebus. “And that is why they are so popular,” added Euphrosyne; “the tast of the age being so decidedly for fiction.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

479. “I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying, that there is only one step between his state who deeply indulges in imaginative meditation, and insanity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

480. “In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

481. “Political institutions, founded on abstract rights and principles, are mere nullities.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

482. “There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

483. “We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous.”

— Benjamin Disraeli