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
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
My objection to Liberalism is thisthat it is the introduction into the practicalbusiness of life of the highest kindnamely, politicsof philosophical ideas… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at… — 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
