Benjamin Disraeli
120 quotations
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
Success is the child of audacity.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
There is no wisdom like frankness.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
A person's fate is their own temper.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Travel teaches tolerance.
Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.