Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

52. “The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

53. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

54. “Travel teaches toleration.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

55. “A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

56. “He who gains time gains everything.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

57. “Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

59. “All is race – there is no other truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

60. “When I want to read a novel, I write one.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

61. “But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

62. “An obedient wife commands her husband.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

64. “Ignorance never settles a question.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

65. “A man’s fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

66. “With words we govern men.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

67. “Despair is the conclusion of fools.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

68. “Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

69. “Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

70. “The greatest of all evils is a weak government.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

71. “The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

72. “Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

73. “Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

74. “Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

76. “I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

77. “A man’s fate is his own temper.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

78. “Quit the world, and the world forgets you.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

79. “To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

80. “A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

81. “The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

82. “I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”

— Benjamin Disraeli

83. “In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

84. “There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

85. “The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

86. “Everything comes if a man will only wait.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

87. “I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!”

— Benjamin Disraeli

88. “The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

89. “All my successes have been built on my failures.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

90. “Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

91. “To do nothing and get something, formed a boy’s ideal of a manly career.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

92. “There can be economy only where there is efficiency.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

93. “If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

94. “I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

95. “I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

96. “The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

97. “My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

98. “Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

99. “We are taught words, not ideas.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

100. “All must respect those who respect themselves.”

— Benjamin Disraeli