3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli 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.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli 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.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
