Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

152. “I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

153. “Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

154. “What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

155. “Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

156. “The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

157. “The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

158. “The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

159. “Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

160. “Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

161. “Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

162. “The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

163. “Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

164. “I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

165. “Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

166. “There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

167. “A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

168. “The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

169. “A book may be as great a thing as a battle.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

170. “Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

171. “I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

172. “Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

173. “It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

174. “Be thine own privy counsellor.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

175. “Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

176. “No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

177. “Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

178. “Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

179. “Fear makes us feel our humanity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

180. “What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

181. “Nature is stronger than education.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

182. “The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

183. “London is a roost for every bird.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

184. “I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

185. “Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

186. “Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

187. “I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other’s charms.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

188. “Change is constant in a progressive country.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

189. “Having the courage to live within one’s means is respectability.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

190. “A precedent embalms a principle.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

191. “The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

192. “Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

193. “The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

194. “In politics experiments means revolutions.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

195. “Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

196. “Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

197. “A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

198. “It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

199. “If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

200. “At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.”

— Benjamin Disraeli