129 Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli


Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli on age

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli on age

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli on art

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli on beauty

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Benjamin Disraeli on best

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

A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Benjamin Disraeli on best

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin Disraeli on best

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli on business

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli on change

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli on change

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli on change

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli on courage

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

There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli on education

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli on education

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli on experience

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli on experience

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli on failure

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli on faith