Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

About Benjamin Disraeli:

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is, at 2015[update], the only British Prime Minister of Jewish birth.
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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Benjamin Disraeli

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Benjamin Disraeli

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Benjamin Disraeli

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Benjamin Disraeli

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Benjamin Disraeli

Author Bio

  • NameBenjamin Disraeli
  • DescriptionBritish Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
  • BornDecember 21, 1804
  • DiedApril 19, 1881
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPolitician; Novelist; Writer
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society