Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing.

His Christianity was muscular.

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

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Little things affect little minds.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lords, am on the side of the angels.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.