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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
Success is the child of audacity.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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.
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Travel teaches toleration.
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
I say that justice is truth in action.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Justice is truth in action.
What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
War is never a solution it is an aggravation.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
There is no education like adversity.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.