Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

We moralize among ruins.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

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.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

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.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

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.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.