Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

The expected always happens

A canter is the cure for all evil.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

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

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

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