I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Success, Perseverance
There is no wisdom like frankness.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Candor, Truth
Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Worry
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Friendship
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Experience
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Health
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Economy
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
—Benjamin Disraeli
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Money
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Memory
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Courage, One liners, Bravery
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Freedom, Man, Mankind, Circumstance, Self-reliance, Life
Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Candor, Honesty, Sincerity, Truth
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Lawyers, Law
We moralize among ruins.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Morals, Morality
I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Gratitude
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
—Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love… . It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Existence, Love, Romance
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Dying, Learning, Wisdom
Something will turn up.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Faith, Belief
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: The Present, Time, Time Management
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties
As a rule, man is a fool.
When it’s hot, he wants it cool;
When its cool, he wants it hot.
Always wanting, what is not.
—Benjamin Disraeli
It is the lot of man to suffer.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Suffering
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Greatness & Great Things, Greatness, Reason
Justice is truth in action.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Truth, Justice
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Friendship
Change is inevitable…Change is constant.
—Benjamin Disraeli
That magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Feelings, Love, Ignorance
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Luck, Fortune
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