Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

London is a roost for every bird.

Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party!

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!

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

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.