Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

"I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted," said Egremont.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power

The young Prince Leopold has the nose of a fairytale prince who has been enchanted by an evil witch.

Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

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

He told Lord Esher that, in talking with the Queen, he observed a simple rule: "I never deny; I never contradict; I sometimes forget."

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

We are the children of the gods, and are never more the slaves of circumstance than when we deem ourselves their masters. What may next happen in the dazzling farce of life, the Fates only know.

Miss Sands told me that Queen Victoria, who was latterly éprise with Disraeli, one day asked him what was his real religion. "Madam," he replied, "I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New."

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public men.

The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.

There is no gambling like politics.