Quotes

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” 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

“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Fear makes us feel our humanity.” Benjamin Disraeli

“The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.” Benjamin Disraeli

“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.” Benjamin Disraeli

“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.” 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

“There is no education like adversity.” Benjamin Disraeli

“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” Benjamin Disraeli

“There can be economy only where there is efficiency.” 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

“Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.” Benjamin Disraeli

“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.” Benjamin Disraeli

“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

“Genius, when young, is divine.” Benjamin Disraeli

“It is easier to be critical than correct.” Benjamin Disraeli

“There is no index of character so sure as the voice.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Justice is truth in action.” Benjamin Disraeli