Famous Quotes / Benjamin Disraeli
198 Quotations by Benjamin Disraeli
- 21. Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
- 22. Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed ...
- 23. Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, a ...
- 24. Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
- 25. But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
- 26. Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
- 27. Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
- 28. Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
- 29. Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
- 30. Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
- 31. Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most grea ...
- 32. Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
- 33. Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
- 34. Cosmopolitan critics: men who are the friends of every country save their own.
- 35. Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
- 36. Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
- 37. Damn your principles. Stick to your Party!
- 38. Despair is the conclusion of fools.
- 39. Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
- 40. Duty cannot exist without faith.