Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

As for our majority... one is enough.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

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

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

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfilment.

"But they deserve their wealth," he added, "nobody grudges it to them. I declare when I was eating that truffle, I felt a glow about my heart that, if it were not indigestion, I think must have been gratitude; though that is an article I had not believed in.

His Christianity was muscular.

Nothing is going on, but everybody is afraid of something.

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

It is a very difficult country to move, Mr. Hyndman, a very difficult country indeed, and one in which there is more disappointment to be looked for than success.

My Lords, the key of India is not Merv, or Herat, or Candahar. The key of India is London. The majesty of sovereignty, the spirit and vigour of your Parliaments, the inexhaustible resources of a free, an ingenious, and a determined people—these are the keys of India.