Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 6 of 10

251. “No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

252. “William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

253. “You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

254. “My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

255. “The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

256. “Luck is what a capricious man believes in.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

257. “Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

258. “The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

259. “Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

260. “England is governed not by logic but by parliament.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

261. “We moralize among ruins.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

262. “Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

264. “Amusement to an observing mind is study.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

265. “Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

266. “It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

267. “Her Majesty is not a subject.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

268. “Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

269. “A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

270. “Departure should be sudden.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

271. “The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

272. “The canter is a cure for every evil.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

273. “Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

274. “Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace – but a peace I hope with honour.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

275. “Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

276. “The sweet simplicity of the three percents.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

277. “Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

278. “Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

279. “Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

280. “The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

281. “Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

282. “Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

284. “An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

285. “Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

286. “The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

287. “Religion is civilization, the highest.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

288. “The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

289. “The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

290. “We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

291. “What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

292. “A majority is always better than the best repartee.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

293. “There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

294. “I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

295. “Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

296. “Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

297. “Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

298. “You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

299. “Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

300. “The depositary of power is always unpopular.”

— Benjamin Disraeli