Life Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Life is to short to be small.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be little.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Change is constant in a progressive country.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

— Benjamin Disraeli

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few…

— Benjamin Disraeli

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with…

— Benjamin Disraeli

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are…

— Benjamin Disraeli

We are all born for love... it is the principle existence and it's only end.

— Benjamin Disraeli

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

— Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

— Benjamin Disraeli

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

— Benjamin Disraeli

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

— Benjamin Disraeli

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

— Benjamin Disraeli

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. ”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

— Benjamin Disraeli

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

— Benjamin Disraeli