Tag: Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

(In response to a man who asked Disraeli “What is the difference between a misfortune and a calamity?”)

If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.

Benjamin Disraeli

What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

None are so interested in maintaining the institutions of the country as the working classes. The rich and the powerful will not find much difficulty under any circumstances in maintaining their rights, but the privileges of the people can only be defended and secured by popular institutions.

Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli