Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Să vezi Ierusalimul înseamnă să vezi istoria lumii; ba mai mult, înseamnă să vezi istoria cerului și a pământului.

Since the settlement of [the] Constitution, now nearly two centuries ago, England has never experienced a revolution, though there is no country in which there has been so continuous and such considerable change. How is this? Because the wisdom of your forefathers placed the prize of supreme power without the sphere of human passions. Whatever the struggle of parties, whatever the strife of factions, whatever the excitement and exaltation of the public mind, there has always been something in this country round which all classes and parties could rally, representing the majesty of the law, the administration of justice, and involving, at the same time, the security for every man's rights and the fountain of honour.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

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

I don't wish to go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

[T]here are some who challenge the expediency of the Imperial character of this realm. Having attempted, and failed, to enfeeble our colonies by their policy of decomposition, they may, perhaps, now recognize in the disintegration of the United Kingdom a mode which will not only accomplish, but precipitate their purpose. The immediate dissolution of Parliament will afford an opportunity to the nation to decide upon a course which will materially influence its fortunes and shape its destiny. Rarely in this century has there been an occasion more critical. The power of England and the peace of Europe will largely depend on the verdict of the country.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

A series of congratulatory regrets.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.