1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Explanations]
There is no wisdom like frankness.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Candor]
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Politicians and Politics]
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Truth]
To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Ignorance]
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Management]
Travel teaches tolerance.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Tolerance]
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Inequality]
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Education]
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Love]
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.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Youth]
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Fate]
We moralize among ruins.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Morality]
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Sincerity]
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Expectation]
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Public Opinion]
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Anecdotes]
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Silence]
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Law and Lawyers]
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
Benjamin Disraeli – [Quotations]
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