Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.”

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

353. “Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.”

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354. “Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.”

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355. “I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.”

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

357. “No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.”

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358. “England is unrivalled for two things – sport and politics.”

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359. “It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!”

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360. “The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.”

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361. “England does not love coalitions.”

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362. “In politics, nothing is contemptible.”

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363. “The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.”

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364. “Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.”

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365. “Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.”

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366. “What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.”

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367. “Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.”

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

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369. “Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.”

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370. “Female friendships are of rapid growth.”

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371. “Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.”

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372. “The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!”

— Benjamin Disraeli

373. “That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.”

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374. “Every moment is travel – if understood.”

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375. “No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”

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376. “Man is more powerful than matter.”

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377. “The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”

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

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

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380. “Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.”

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381. “We cannot learn men from books.”

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382. “I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.”

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383. “There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.”

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384. “Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.”

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385. “I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.”

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386. “Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.”

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387. “We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.”

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388. “I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.”

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389. “Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.”

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390. “Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.”

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391. “One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.”

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392. “I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.”

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

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394. “Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”

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395. “There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.”

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396. “The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.”

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397. “He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.”

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398. “Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.”

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399. “I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.”

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

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