Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

306. “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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

308. “Beauty can inspire miracles.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

309. “Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

310. “Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

312. “Man is created for a purpose; the object of his existence is to perfect himself. Man is imperfect by nature, because if nature had made him perfect he would have had no wants; and it is only by supplying his wants that utility can be developed. The development of utility is therefore the object of our being, and the attainment of this great end the cause of our existence.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

313. “Silence often expresses ’more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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315. “I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

316. “There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

317. “Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

319. “She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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320. “O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

321. “Here’s to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

323. “Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

324. “The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

325. “I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

326. “Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

327. “Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

328. “I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

329. “It is the lot of man to suffer.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

330. “Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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331. “He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

332. “To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

333. “The indulgence in grief is a blunder.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

334. “As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

335. “When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

336. “As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

337. “A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

338. “There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

339. “It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

340. “An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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341. “Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

342. “We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

343. “Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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344. “The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

345. “Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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346. “The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

347. “Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

348. “No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

349. “Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

350. “We cannot learn men from books.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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