Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

I say that justice is truth in action.

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

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

All is race - there is no other truth.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

England does not love coalitions.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Justice is truth in action.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

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. The rich and the poor.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.