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Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

London is a roost for every bird.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Little things affect little minds.

Something will turn up.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

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.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.