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Benjamin Disraeli [1804-1881] British

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Statesman, Former British Prime Minister

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS was a British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Politics, Power, Success, Education, Great, Knowledge, Travel, Truth, Change, Courage, Fear, Happiness, Health, History, Learning, Love, Men, Wisdom, Age, Art, Best, Business, Chance, Experience, Failure, Faith, Funny, Future, Good, Government, Hope, Imagination, Independence, Inspirational, Marriage, Motivational, Nature, Peace, Relationship, Religion, Respect, Strength, Sympathy, Thankful, Trust, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.	Best, Hope	101
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.	Happiness	102
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.	Learning	103
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.	Courage	104
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.	Great, Travel	105
Never complain and never explain.	Motivational	106
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.		107
A precedent embalms a principle.		108
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.		109
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.		110
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.	Power	111
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.	Truth	112
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.	Good, Great	113
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.		114
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.	Great, Knowledge	115
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.	Change	116
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.		117
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.	Power, Trust	118
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.	Success	119
Never take anything for granted.	Thankful	120
As for our majority... one is enough.	Funny	121
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.		122
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.	Health, Men, Power	123
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.	Change	124
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.	Art, Faith, Great	125
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.	Power	126
Little things affect little minds.		201
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.		202
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.	Love	203
We cannot learn men from books.	Education, Men	204
Adventures are to the adventurous.		205
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.		206
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.	Politics	207
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.		208
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.		209
Silence is the mother of truth.	Truth	210
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.	Love	211
Man is only great when he acts from passion.	Wisdom	212
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.	Success	213
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.		214
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.		215
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.		216
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.	Future, Respect	217
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.	Politics	218
There is no gambling like politics.	Politics	219
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.		220
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.		221
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.		222
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.		223
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.		224
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.		225
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.	Failure, Success	226
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.	Politics, Success	301
London is a roost for every bird.	Travel	302
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.	Strength, Women	303
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.	Experience	304
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.	Knowledge, Power	305
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.	Nature	306
London is a modern Babylon.		307
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.	History	308
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.	Inspirational	309
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.	Age	310
Despair is the conclusion of fools.		311
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.	Business, Politics	312
Justice is truth in action.	Truth	313
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.	Independence	314
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.		315
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.	Marriage	316
There is moderation even in excess.		317
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.		318
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.		319
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.	Fear	320
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.		321
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.	Wisdom	322
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.	History	323
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.		324
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.		325
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.	Government	326
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.		401
In politics nothing is contemptible.	Politics	402
Finality is not the language of politics.	Politics	403
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.		404
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.	Imagination	405
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.		406
Without tact you can learn nothing.	Education	407
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.	Peace	408
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.	Knowledge, Religion	409
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.		410
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.		411
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.		412
There is no education like adversity.	Education	413
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.		414
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.		415
We moralize among ruins.		416
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.		417
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.		418
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.		419
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.	Courage	420
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.		421
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.	Education	422
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.		423
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.		424
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.	Learning	425
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.		426
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.		501
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.	Success	502
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.		503
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.		504
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.		505
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.		506
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.	Happiness, Health	507
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.		508
Success is the child of audacity.		509
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.		510
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.		511
Travel teaches toleration.	Travel	512
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.		513
That fatal drollery called a representative government.		514
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.	Relationship	515
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.		516
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.		517
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.	Sympathy	518
A majority is always better than the best repartee.		519
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.	Chance	520
Great countries are those that produce great people.		521
Worry - 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.		522
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.	Politics	523
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.		524
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.		525
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.		526
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.		601
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.		602
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.		603
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.		604
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.		605
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.		606
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.		607
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.		608
Fear makes us feel our humanity.	Fear	609
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.		610
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.		611
It is easier to be critical than correct.		612
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?		613
Genius, when young, is divine.		614
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.		615
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.		616
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.		617
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.		618
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.		619
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.		620
Duty cannot exist without faith.		621
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.		622
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.		623
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.		624

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