Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism,Christianity would not exist

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

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

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

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

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

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

Have a old old testament quote that says that man shall not live by bread alone

He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.