Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be little.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Justice is truth in action.

Success is the child of audacity.

There is no education like adversity.

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR.