I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share
Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share