Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

403. “In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

404. “It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

405. “Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

406. “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.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

407. “More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

409. “Great men never require experience.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

410. “There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

411. “London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

412. “An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

414. “Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

416. “The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

417. “A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

418. “Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

419. “Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man’s desires.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

420. “The essence of education is the education of the body.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

421. “The very phrase ‘foreign affairs’ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

422. “That earliest shock in one’s life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

423. “If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

424. “When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

425. “King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

426. “The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

427. “Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

428. “It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

429. “Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

430. “To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

431. “The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

432. “No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

433. “A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

434. “We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

435. “The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

436. “The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart’s blood of its victims.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

437. “He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

438. “An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

439. “No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

440. “The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

441. “The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato’s sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

442. “The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

443. “The originality of a subject is in its treatment.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

444. “I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted,” said Egremont.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

445. “Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

446. “There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

447. “Information upon points of practical politics.”

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448. “There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

449. “What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?”

— Benjamin Disraeli

450. “A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.”

— Benjamin Disraeli