Benjamin Disraeli Love Quotes and Sayings

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

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

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

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

Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.

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

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

Silence is the mother of truth.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

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

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.