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Benjamin Disraeli quotes (53) No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Government As a rule he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Life The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Credulity Despair is the conclusion of fools. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Despair Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Age We are all born for love.... It is the principle of existence and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Love 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. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Wrong There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Doctor Seeing much suffering much and studying much are the three pillars of learning. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Learn There are three kinds of lies: Lies Damn Lies and Statistics. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Lever A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Conservative Action may not always bring happiness; But there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Action To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Tax The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Purpose Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Trifles Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Fiction Characters do not change.- Opinions alter but characters Are only developed. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Character His Christianity was muscular. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Christianity Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Opinion A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Heart Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Passion Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Opportunity I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Will Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Feelings Books are the curse of the human race. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Book The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Proverb It destroys ones nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Liking I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? Benjamin Disraeli Category: Leadership Time is precious but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Truth The essence of education is the education of the body. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Unsorted There is no index of character so sure as the voice. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Voice When men are pure laws are useless; when men are corrupt laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Orthodox Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Enthusiasm Damn your principles! Stick to your party. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Politeness How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Garden Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius Benjamin Disraeli Category: Genius Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creature of man. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Man Never complain and never explain. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Endure To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli Category: If Nurture your minds with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Hero It destroys ones nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Every woman should marry and no man Benjamin Disraeli Category: Marriage Property has its duties as well as its rights. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Possessions In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Progress The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Good Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Assassination I never deny I never contradict. I sometimes forget. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Homosexuality What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Disappointment You know who critics are?the men who have failed in literature and art. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Crisis The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Author The more extensive a mans knowledge of what has been done the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Knowledge Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Civilization A precedent embalms a principle. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Custom Sir I say that justice is truth in action. 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