Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

302. “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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

305. “As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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

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310. “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.”

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

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

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

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314. “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.”

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315. “Beauty can inspire miracles.”

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

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

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

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319. “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

320. “The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.”

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321. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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336. “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.”

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

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

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

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340. “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.”

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341. “Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.”

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

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

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344. “Assassination has never changed the history of the world.”

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345. “In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.”

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

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347. “When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.”

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

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

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350. “We cannot learn men from books.”

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