Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.' — 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
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as… — 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
