Explore Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

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

Small things affects small minds.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

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

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

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.

The canter is a cure for every evil.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

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

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

The expected always happens

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

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

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Life is too short to be little.