Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

He who gains time gains everything.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

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

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

There is no gambling like politics.

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

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.