Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
(campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832)

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
(Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845)

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
(Speech, Edinburgh ,1867)

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
(speech, January 24, 1860)

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
(Sybil, 1845)