Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

We cannot learn men from books.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

With words we govern men.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Turtle makes all men equal.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Never complain and never explain.