88 Famous Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli, The Author Of Two Nations

Never complain and never explain.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

There is no gambling like politics.

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.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Success is the child of audacity.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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