Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted,” said Egremont.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

460. “The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

468. “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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

471. “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

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. “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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

475. “To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

476. “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

477. “Nothing can resist a human will that will stake its existence on a purpose.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

478. “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

479. “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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli