129 Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli


We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli on love

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli on love

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

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

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Benjamin Disraeli on men

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli on men

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli on men

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

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli on men

We cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin Disraeli on men

Never complain and never explain.
Benjamin Disraeli on motivational

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Benjamin Disraeli on nature

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Benjamin Disraeli on peace

In politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli on politics

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli on politics

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 politics

Finality is not the language of politics.
Benjamin Disraeli on politics

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Benjamin Disraeli on politics

There is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin Disraeli on politics

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.
Benjamin Disraeli on politics