Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

Ser consciente de la propia ignorancia es un gran paso hacia el saber.

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone, extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic, whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling, never a gentleman.

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.