Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

102. “The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

103. “Genius, when young, is divine.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

104. “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.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

105. “Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

106. “We make our fortunes and we call them fate.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

107. “The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

108. “A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

109. “A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

110. “I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

111. “Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

112. “Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

113. “Books are the curse of the human race.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

114. “What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

116. “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.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

117. “A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

118. “Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

119. “One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

120. “A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

121. “Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

122. “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

123. “A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

124. “When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

125. “A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

126. “Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses – half the cabinet are not asses.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

127. “I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

128. “Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

129. “A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

130. “He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

131. “Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

132. “All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

133. “No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

134. “Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

135. “Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

136. “The expected always happens.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

137. “News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

138. “Damn your principles! Stick to your party.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

139. “Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

141. “There is no index of character so sure as the voice.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

142. “The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

143. “Finality is not the language of politics.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

144. “People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

145. “Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

146. “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

147. “Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

148. “I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

149. “Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

150. “We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”

— Benjamin Disraeli