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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes


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.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.