198 Quotations by Benjamin Disraeli
- 1. A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

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

- 3. A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represen ...

- 4. A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

- 5. A majority is always better than the best repartee.

- 6. A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the proper ...

- 7. A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. T ...

- 8. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

- 9. A person's fate is their own temper.

- 10. A precedent embalms a principle.

- 11. A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e ...

- 12. A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

- 13. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

- 14. Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

- 15. Amusement to an observing mind is study.

- 16. An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own childr ...

- 17. An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own chi ...

- 18. An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

- 19. As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

- 20. As a rule, he or she that has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

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