Benjamin Disraeli
120 quotations
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Finality is not the language of politics.
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Silence is the mother of truth.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.