Explore Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

The essence of education is the education of the body.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.