Home › Authors › Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
1804–1881 England
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The anniversary of his death on 19 April is known as Primrose Day.
England Biographers Converts to christianity Essayists Novelists Also known as: Disraeli, Disraeli, Benjamin, Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Random Benjamin Disraeli quote
263 quotes
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Endymion (1880)
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
Endymion (1881)
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Endymion (1880)
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
Tancred (1847)
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Lothair (1870)
Man is not a rational animal. He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion.
Henrietta Temple (1837)
That is an apology, not an explanation; and apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
Nine–tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Religious education is demanded by the nation generally and by the instincts of human nature.
Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
speech at Manchester (1866)
But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.
I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
A feat of chivalry, fiery with consummate courage, and bright with flashing vigor.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.
Tancred (1847)
Your dexterity seems a happy compound of the smartness of an attorney's clerk and the intrigue of a Greek of the lower empire.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
A consistent man believes in Destiny — a capricious man in Chance.
Vivian Grey (1826)
He told Lord Esher that, in talking with the Queen, he observed a simple rule: "I never deny; I never contradict; I sometimes forget."
Topics Benjamin Disraeli is quoted on
Works