Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 5 of 10

201. “Without tact you can learn nothing.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

202. “The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

203. “Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

204. “You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

205. “Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

206. “Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

207. “The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

208. “War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

209. “The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

210. “The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

211. “Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

212. “Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

213. “Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

214. “The question is this – Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

215. “I believe absence is a great element of charm.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

216. “Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

217. “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

218. “There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

219. “If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, – the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

220. “Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

221. “The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

222. “Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

223. “A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

224. “The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

225. “Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

226. “A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

227. “How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

228. “What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

229. “Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

230. “We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

231. “All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

232. “London; a nation, not a city.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

233. “Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

234. “Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

235. “Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

236. “Party is organized opinion.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

237. “All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!”

— Benjamin Disraeli

238. “A canter is the cure for all evil.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

239. “Never apologize, never explain.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

240. “Every man should marry – and no woman.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

241. “Tobacco is the tomb of love.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

242. “Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

243. “The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

244. “Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

245. “As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

246. “Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

247. “If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

248. “A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ‘Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.’ That depends, Sir,? said Disraeli, ’whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

249. “I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

250. “Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”

— Benjamin Disraeli