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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The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Benjamin Disraeli

London is a roost for every bird.

Benjamin Disraeli

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Benjamin Disraeli

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Benjamin Disraeli

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Benjamin Disraeli

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Never complain and never explain.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

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