Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

The more extensive a mans knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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

Justice is truth in action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

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

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.

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

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each others habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

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

As for our majority... one is enough.

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

There is no gambling like politics.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Never complain and never explain.