A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Adventures are to the adventurous.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning
- Benjamin Disraeli
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
- Benjamin Disraeli
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A precedent embalms a principle.
- Benjamin Disraeli
As for our majority... one is enough.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
- Benjamin Disraeli
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Duty cannot exist without faith.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Finality is not the language of politics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Genius, when young, is divine.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
- Benjamin Disraeli
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Little things affect little minds.
- Benjamin Disraeli
London is a modern Babylon.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
- Benjamin Disraeli
London is a roost for every bird.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Never complain and never explain.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
- Benjamin Disraeli
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
- Benjamin Disraeli
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Never take anything for granted.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the child of audacity.
- Benjamin Disraeli
