Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

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

Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

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

He who gains time gains everything.