Benjamin Disraeli Quotes:

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Always Happy, Capricious

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

source: - "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

Topics: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Truth, Just Being You, Lies Truth

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Topics: Inspirational, Success, Opportunity, Young Entrepreneurs, New Opportunity

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Topics: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Power Of The Mind, Inspiration And Motivation

Never complain and never explain.

source: - In J. Morley 'The Life of William Ewart Gladstone' (1903) vol. 1, p. 123.

Topics: Political, Advice, Complaining, Stop Complaining

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

Topics: Inspirational, Friendship, Success, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Charity

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

Topics: Inspiration, Mind, Nurture

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

Topics: Anxiety, Life Is, Unnecessary

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.

Topics: Islands, Justice, Gentleman

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Topics: Happiness, Health, People, Ill Health

There is no education like adversity.

source: - Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

Topics: Education, Teacher, Motivation

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Topics: Fake People, Bullying, Army, Inspirational Bullying, Anti Bullying

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Topics: Positive Thinking, Criticism, Politics, Funny Exam

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Topics: Memories, Hero, Names, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Messages

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Topics: Life, Positive, Veterans Day, Positive Inspirational, Happy Veterans Day

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Topics: Failure, Political, Politics

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

Topics: Perseverance, Two, Quality, Great Qualities

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

Topics: Love, Heartbreak, Sarcastic, Romanticism

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

Topics: Stars, Light, Way, Vapor, Clusters

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.

source: - Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.375, ReadHowYouWant.com

Topics: Honesty, World, Helpful, Admission, Wrongdoing

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

Topics: Life, Time, Calendars, Two Nations, Time Is Precious

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Topics: Inspirational, Hope, Planning, Prepare For The Worst

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Topics: Country, People, Produce, Great Country, Great Nations

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Topics: Attitude, Grief, Men

Life is too short to be little.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Littles, Life's Too Short, Frankness

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

source: - Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

Topics: Life, Motivational, Success, Most Important Things In Life, Seize The Opportunity

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Topics: Music, People, Locked Up

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Topics: Respect, Character, Reality

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Topics: Funny, Wisdom, Agreement, Cute Funny, Agreeableness

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

Topics: Inspiration, Knowledge, Men, Knowing What To Do, Power Of Knowledge

He who gains time gains everything.

Topics: Gains, Time Management, Management

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

Topics: Music, Beautiful, Might, Literature And Music, Beautiful Music

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Topics: Communication, Humor, Intelligent, Amused, Unkind

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Topics: Country, Power, Tolerance

Ignorance never settles a question.

Topics: Ignorance, Intelligent, Intelligence

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

Topics: Beautiful, Hands, Long, Beautiful Face

A canter is the cure for all evil.

Topics: Animal, Evil, Pet

The essence of education is the education of the body.

Topics: Educational, Essence, Body

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Topics: Happiness, Success, Perseverance, Secret Of My Success, Constancy

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Topics: Men, Behinds, Women And Strength

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Topics: Class, Community, Protection, Plunder

Never take anything for granted.

Topics: Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation, Take Nothing For Granted, Uptown

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Topics: Believe, Intelligent, Destiny, Capricious, Life And Destiny

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Topics: Political, Preparation, Progress, Redress, Anti Conservative

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Topics: Education, Wisdom, Learning, World Suffering

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.

Topics: Two, Political, Feelings, Two Nations, No Sympathy

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Topics: Government, Hypocrisy, Political

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Topics: Inspirational, Travel, Memorable, Journey Inspirational, Inspirational Adventure

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

source: - Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain in his 'Autobiography' (1924) vol. 1, p. 246

Topics: Funny, Witty, Truth, Mathematical Logic, Statistician

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Romance, Unselfish Love

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

source: - Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2513, Delphi Classics

Topics: Political, Different, World, State Government, Head Of State

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

source: - Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

Topics: Party, Political, Politics, Treachery, Political Parties

Little things affect little minds.

Topics: Sarcastic, Work, Teaching, Two Nations, Little Minds

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Topics: Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Men

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Topics: Wisdom, Passion, Intelligent, Crusades, Great Passion

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Topics: Intelligent, Power, Hypnosis, Beyond Control

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Topics: Intelligent, Political, Genius

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Topics: Change, Intelligent, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable, Inevitable Change

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Topics: Peace, War, Aggravation, Anti War

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Topics: Life, Inspire, Easy

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Topics: Politics

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Topics: Leadership, People, Leader, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Leadership Training

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

Topics: Success, Lasts

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Topics: Change, History, Historical, Assassination

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Topics: Kings, Government, Upset, State Government, One World Government

We moralize among ruins.

Topics: Ruins, Morality

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Topics: Education, Country, School, Value Of Education

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Topics: Change, Resistance

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Topics: Community, May, Individual

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

Topics: Intelligent, Errors, Great Service

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Topics: Order, Matter, Taste

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

source: - Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Contarini Fleming, v. 2. Count Alarcos. Popanilla”

Topics: Truth, Men, Law

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Topics: Fear, Intelligent, Speech, Power Of Speech

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Topics: Fear, People, Steps

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Topics: Patience, Genius, Ingredients

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

Topics: Respect, Mean, Respectability

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

Topics: Motivational, Thank You, Gratitude, I Am Thankful, Sensations

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

Topics: Adversity, People, Defeated

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Topics: Men, Sometimes

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Topics: Mother, Intelligent, Diligence, Good Fortune, Dream Job

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Topics: Husband, Wife, Command

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

Topics: Wine, Bored, So Bored, Wine And Age, Good Wine

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Topics: Passion, Garden, Toil

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

Topics: Sister, Sweet, Voice, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

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

Topics: Two, Strategy, Dangerous, Chasms

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

Topics: Two, Silence, Ears

Finality is not the language of politics.

Topics: Politics, Language, Finality, Politicians And Politics

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

Topics: Writing, Way, Subjects

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Topics: Patience, Hope, Men, Strangest Secret

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

Topics: Positive, Stakes, Existence, Finitude, Your Purpose In Life

A precedent embalms a principle.

Topics: Intelligent, Principles, Precedent

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Topics: Adventure, Vacation, Adventurous

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Topics: Economy, Efficiency, Economic Efficiency, Economy And Economics

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Topics: Men, Political, Politics

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Topics: Political, Historical, Democracy, Statesmen

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Topics: Tact, Inquirers

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Topics: Power, People, Injustice, Social Welfare, Two Nations

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Topics: Government, Long, Political, Formidable

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Topics: Trust, Spring, Exercise, Public Trust, New Government

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination, Finitude, Your Purpose In Life

Travel teaches toleration.

Topics: Inspirational, Travel, Journey

Success is the child of audacity.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Success

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Topics: Success, Education, Intelligent, Successful Man, Too Much Information

Silence is the mother of truth.

source: - Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.150, U of Nebraska Press

Topics: Life, Beautiful, Mother

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Topics: Wisdom, Powerful, Intelligent

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Topics: Happiness, Grief, Agony

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Topics: Time, Youth, Trustees

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Topics: Successful, Conceited, Men

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Topics: Doubt, Despair, Fool

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Topics: Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom, Wisdom And Experience, Perpetuating

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Topics: Responsibility, Power, Next, Relinquishing, Relinquishing Control

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Topics: Inspirational, Men, Odds

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Topics: Israel, Views, Heaven

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Topics: Art, Memories, Men

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Topics: Time, Ethos, Forget

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Topics: Trust, Time, Truth, Time Is Precious, Precious Time

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

Topics: Mind, Amusement, Study, Observing

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Topics: Inspirational, Intelligent, Genius, Energy And Enthusiasm, Enthusiasm Passion

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

Topics: Philosophy, Struggle, Dark, Wonder And Mystery

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Topics: Inspirational, Success, Wisdom, Strong Motivational, Destined

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

source: - Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

Topics: Wise, Wisdom, Intelligent, Questions Asked, Fools And Wise

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Topics: Atheist, Religion, Atheism, Funny Atheist, Funny Religious

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Topics: Education, Learning, Light

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

Topics: Defeat

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Topics: Fear, Fearless, Humanity

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Topics: Inspirational, Children, Positive Thinking, Mental Strength

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Topics: Education, Knowledge, Intelligent, Teachability

The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe

Topics: Believe, Eye, People

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Topics: Destiny, Circumstances, Creator, Life And Destiny, Life Destiny

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Topics: Party, Pride, Ability

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

Topics: Reading, Punctuation, Accents

Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection.

Topics: Country, Rights, Views, Second Place

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Topics: Plato, Moving, Eye, Plato S, Supplements

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

Topics: Responsibility, Giving, Advice, Incurring, Giving Advice

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

Topics: Leadership, People, Age

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

Topics: Civilization, Tendencies, Monarchy, Advanced Civilization

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

Topics: Believe, Quality, Links

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

Topics: Beautiful, Age, Aftermath

Turtle makes all men equal.

Topics: Men, Turtles, Appetite

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Topics: Giving, Bows, Arguing

All is race - there is no other truth.

Topics: Race

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Topics: Government, Law, Doe

A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.

Topics: Fate, People, Bishops

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.

Topics: Cities, Wonderful, Manchester

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

Topics: Destiny, Fortune

Change is constant in a progressive country.

Topics: Life, Country, Progressive

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

Topics: Advice, Want, Matter, Solicitors, Protestants

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Topics: Sound, Paradise, Eating

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Topics: Noble, Debate, Lord

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Topics: Change, Age, Progress, Narrow-minded

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

Topics: Christian, Religious, Taken, Religious Intolerance

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

Topics: Adversity, England

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Topics: Volcanoes, Flames, Exhausted, Flicker

The gondola of London [a hansom].

Topics: London, Gondolas

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Topics: England, Shopkeepers

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Topics: Men, Nonsense, Treaties

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

Topics: Party, Gentleman

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Topics: Book, Classic, Acquaintance, New Acquaintances

This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

Topics: Errors, Quality, Bishops, Canterbury, Idiosyncrasies

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

Topics: Class, Community, Quality

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

Topics: Book, Men, Ideas, Picturesque

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

Topics: Marriage, Men, Should

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

Topics: Christianity, Judaism

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

Topics: Age, Characteristics, Craving, Credulity

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

Topics: Country, Church, May

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and therefore when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which, I hope, will keep it great.

Topics: Country, Party, Government, Parliamentary Government

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

Topics: Law, Two, People, Two Nations

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

Topics: Destiny, Bears

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

Topics: Destiny

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

Topics: Men, Doctrine, Genius

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Topics: Argument, Comprehension, Antagonist

The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

Topics: Army, Noble, Causes, Valour

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Topics: Art, Artist, May

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Topics: Imagination, Politics, Opponents, Exuberance

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Topics: Government, Numbers, Long

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

Topics: Envy, Justice, Hypocrisy, Maniacs, Gladstone

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Topics: Men, Political, Sound

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

Topics: Science, Invention, Fixed

The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

Topics: Attitude, Men, Bunch

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Topics: Passion, Men, Order, Crusades, French Revolution

Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.

Topics: Europe, Names, Two, Rothschild

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

Topics: Adventure, Tree, Fruit, Tree Of Knowledge

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

Topics: Kings, Government, Tyrants, Divine Right, Divine Right Of Kings

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

Topics: Children, Rivers, Mind

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

Topics: Men, Energy, Want

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Topics: Silence, Speech, Judgment

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

Topics: Book, Battle, May

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Topics: Life Is Too Short, Imagination, Littles

Be thine own privy counsellor.

Topics: Secrecy, Counsellors

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Topics: Truth, Learning, History

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Topics: Art, Society, Politics

Party is organized opinion.

Topics: Party, Politics, Opinion

This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma , Inkerman, and Balaclava , may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.

Topics: Race, Years, House, Kettles, Third Time

Every moment is travel - if understood.

Topics: Travel, Moments, Understood

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

Topics: Heart, Blood, Arrows, Wet

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

Topics: Affection, Appreciated, Lost, Loved And Lost

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

Topics: Sports, Two, England

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

Topics: Use, Motto, Turns