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Benjamin Disraeli: Quotes
- Adventure
The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”: Ixion in Heaven
- Age and Aging
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.: Coningsby
- Change
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
- Civilization
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
- Complaint
Never complain and never explain.
- Craftiness
“Frank and explicit;” that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.: Sybil
- Custom and Tradition
A precedent embalms a principle.
- Evolution
Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels.
- Justice
I say that justice is truth in action.
- Leisure
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
- Liberals and Conservatives
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Majorities
A majority is always the best repartee.: Tancred
- Passion
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.: Coningsby
- Peace and Nonviolence
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace—but a peace I hope with honor.
- Praise and Flattery
The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us.: Vivian Grey
- Religion
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
- Science
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.: Coningsby
- Youth
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.: Coningsby