Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

Every woman should marry - and no man.

Man is more powerful than matter.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.