Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

A canter is the cure for all evil.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Party is organized opinion.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.