Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There is no gambling like politics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Religion is civilization, the highest.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
- Benjamin Disraeli
All must respect those who respect themselves.
- Benjamin Disraeli