Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party!

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.

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

A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Travel teaches toleration.

Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.

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.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

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.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.