Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.

If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity.

The messenger from the Republics of the West now prostrated himself before the Statue. He informed it that two parties had, unfortunately, broken out in these countries, and threatened their speedy dissolution; that one party maintained that all human government originated in the wants of man; while the other party asserted that it originated in the desires of man. That these factions had become so violent and so universal that public business was altogether stopped,

Ser consciente de la propia ignorancia es un gran paso hacia el saber.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

I am opposed to it because I wish to see united at an important crisis of the world—a crisis that perhaps is nearer arriving than some of us suppose—because I wish to see a united people welded in one great nationality, and because I feel that if we sanction this policy—if we do not cleanse the Parliamentary bosom of all this "perilous stuff"—we shall bring about the disintegration of the Kingdom and the destruction of the Empire.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

You were invaded; you were pillaged and you were conquered; yet amid all these disgraces and vicissitudes there was gradually formed that English race which has brought about a very different state of affairs. Instead of being invaded, your land is proverbially the only "inviolate land"—"the inviolate land of the sage and free." Instead of being plundered, you have attracted to your shores all the capital of the world. Instead of being conquered, your flag floats on many waters, and your standard waves in either zone. It may be said that these achievements are due to the race that inhabited the land, and not to its institutions. Gentlemen, in political institutions are the embodied experiences of a race. You have established a society of classes which give vigour and variety to life. But no class possesses a single exclusive privilege, and all are equal before the law. You possess a real aristocracy, open to all who deserve to enter it. You have not merely a middle class, but a hierarchy of middle classes, in which every degree of wealth, refinement, industry, energy, and enterprise is duly represented.

When I want to read a good book, I write one.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

A consistent man believes in Destiny — a capricious man in Chance.

There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.

But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.