Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
- Benjamin Disraeli
When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous
- Benjamin Disraeli
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
- Benjamin Disraeli
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli