Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Success is the child of audacity.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.