Benjamin Disraeli
120 quotations
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
There is no education like adversity.
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
He has not a single redeeming defect.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Genius, when young, is divine.
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
Amusement to an observing mind is study.