Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

There is moderation even in excess.

London is a modern Babylon.

Ignorance never settles a question.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

London is a roost, for every bird.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Departure should be sudden.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Travel teaches toleration.

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.