Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
(1804 - 1881)
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A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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A good preface is as essential to put the reader into good humor, as a good prologue is to a play, or a fine symphony to an opera, containing something analogous to the work itself; so that we may feel its want as a desire not elsewhere to be gratified. The Italians call the preface "the sauce of the book;" and, if well-seasoned, it creates an appetite in the reader to devour the book itself.
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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]
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
[Politics]
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A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
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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.
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A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
[Friendship]
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A precedent, embalms a principle.
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A preface, being the entrance of a book, should invite by its beauty. An elegant porch announces the splendor of the interior.
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity who can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself.
[Speech]
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasties.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
[Action]
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Adventures are to the adventurous.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Always have distinguished friends. Never have fools for friends, they are of no use.
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Amusement to an observing mind is study.
[Amusements]
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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
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Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
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