Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.

The English in politics are as the old Hebrews in religion, a favoured and peculiar people.

We make our own fortunes, and call them fate.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

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

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

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

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

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