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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes


Little things affect little minds.

London is a modern Babylon.

London is a roost for every bird.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

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

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Never complain and never explain.

Never take anything for granted.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.